Choosing statistics to answer your research question
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Explain what statistical analysis you would use to test the hypothesis that Aripiprazole is more effective in preventing and maintaining mania or manic episodes in bipolar disorder than other available medications. Identify the variables in the study and describe how they will be measured.
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Provides two examples of research questions and describes how they can be answered with 1) t-tests and 2) ANOVA. Identifies independent and dependent variables.
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Hi,
This depends a bit on what you're comparing Aripiprazole to, so I'll explain this for both possibilities.
If you're comparing it to one drug to Aripiprazole, you just have two groups (people getting the other drug and people getting Aripiprazole). In this case, you would run an independent samples t-test. This simply tests whether the two groups are significantly different from one another.
If you're comparing two or more drugs to Aripiprazole, you have more than two ...
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