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1) Descriptive statistics: Please interpret this data a provide a description of the data represents. As you compare the means visually, what is your first impression about the difference in these means?

Hispanic Women Hispanic Men Non- Hispanic Women
Hours of aide support Mean : 5.20
Sd: 2.946
n: 82 Mean : 4.96
Sd: 2.2.356
n: 70 Mean : 4.13
Sd: .707
n: 63
Depressive symptoms Mean: 4.4390
Sd: .94409
n: 82 Mean : 4.3286
Sd: .97388
n: 70 Mean : 1.5873
Sd: 1.28704
n: 63
Support Mean: 6.1707
Sd: 1.38604
n: 82 Mean : 6.0000
Sd: 1.44463
n: 70 Mean : 2.3492
Sd: 1.83302
n: 63

2) Do Hispanic women and Hipanic men have the same number of hours and support? State your hypothesis verbally and in equation form. What does the t-test tell you about your hypotheses?. which groups have statistically significantly different means of hours?

Independent Samples Test

t df Sig. (2-tailed) Mean Difference Std. Error Difference 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference
Lower Upper
# of aide hours per week Equal variances assumed 1.163 150 .247 .509 .438 -.356 1.375
depress Equal variances assumed .709 150 .480 .11045 .15588 -.19755 .41846
support Equal variances assumed .742 150 .459 .17073 .22998 -.28370 .62516

Hispanic women and Hispanic men

3) Do Hispanic women and non-Hipanic women have the same number of hours and support? State your hypothesis verbally and in equation form. What does the t-test tell you about your hypotheses?. which groups have statistically significantly different means of hours?

Independent Samples Test

t df Sig. (2-tailed) Mean Difference Std. Error Difference 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference
Lower Upper
# of aide hours per week Equal variances assumed -2.814 143 .006 -1.068 .380 -1.818 -.318
depress Equal variances assumed -15.455 143 .000 -2.85172 .18452 -3.21646 -2.48698
support Equal variances assumed -14.299 143 .000 -3.82153 .26727 -4.34983 -3.29322

Hispanic women and non-Hispanic women

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1) Descriptive statistics: Please interpret this data a provide a description of the data represents. As you compare the means visually, what is your first impression about the difference in these means?

Hispanic Women Hispanic Men Non- Hispanic Women
Hours of aide support Mean : 5.20
Sd: 2.946
n: 82 Mean : 4.96
Sd: 2.2.356
n: 70 Mean : 4.13
Sd: .707
n: 63
Depressive symptoms Mean: 4.4390
Sd: .94409
n: 82 Mean : 4.3286
Sd: .97388
n: 70 Mean : 1.5873
Sd: 1.28704
n: 63
Support Mean: 6.1707
Sd: 1.38604
n: 82 Mean : 6.0000
Sd: 1.44463
n: 70 Mean : 2.3492
Sd: 1.83302
n: 63

The descriptive statistics indicates that the mean hour of aide support is for Hispanic Women at 5.20 followed by Hispanic Men at 4.96 and then Non-Hispanic Women at 4.13. The distribution is more dispersed in case of Hispanic Women as compared to Hispanic Men. The distribution is least spread for ...

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