Instruction
The goals of this assignment are to assess students' ability to: Appropriately represent the levels of one variable across another using appropriate descriptive techniques,Describe findings from a descriptive analysis, Choose appropriate test of association with appropriate justification, Analyze association between two variables in SPSS, Correctly interpret the findings of a hypothesis test, Choose appropriate measures of strength of association and Interpret the results of the measures of strength of association.
Directions
For this assignment you will use the Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities data set, “Census of Correctional Facilities.sav.” Census of Correctional Facilities.sav For this research project prisons are asked to report a variety of information about themselves — number of staff, number of inmates, number of reported assaults, etc. The data set presented here has had most of the variables removed. In this data set, there are only two variables to analyze. Here you will answer the following question — does the prison security level impact escape attempts?
First, choose an appropriate descriptive technique to represent the relationship between the two variables. (3 points)
Second, make a two-tailed hypothesis about the relationship. (2 points)
Third, decide which of the measures of association covered in class to use to analyze the relationship. Describe the reasons that support your choice of statistical technique. (3 points)
Fourth, execute the analysis in SPSS and discuss whether the assumptions were met and appropriate conditions were in place. (4 points)
Fifth, what is your decision about the results? Is there a relationship? Use evidence from the analysis to support your conclusion when you interpret the findings. Be detailed and specific. (5 points)
Six, if there was a significant relationship, choose an appropriate measure of strength of association and interpret the findings. (3 points)
When responding to the prompts above be sure to type the answers and copy & paste the necessary output from SPSS into an electronic document that is saved as a .pdf or .docx file. When you have completed the document upload that file by clicking on the assignment name above and following the appropriate directions to do so.