LUYUN, ERICA MAE V.

BIOSTATISTICS

1. A professor wishes to find out which method is more effective in teaching in Biostat 207-Categorical
Data Analysis. He used the final grade results to gauge the effectiveness of the methods. Is there a
significant difference between the three methods? Use alpha of 0.05.

Computerized method: 97.28, 88.46, 90.34, 89.92, 95.89, 88.02, 98, 91.52, 88.45, 92.65, 94.71, 88.25, 99,
95.7, 92.39, 98.37, 96.89, 94.57, 84.38
Traditional method: 97.28, 88.46, 90.34, 89.92, 95.89, 88.02, 85, 91.52, 88.45, 92.65, 94.71, 88.25, 98,
95.7, 92.39, 97.37, 96.89. 94.57, 84.38
Mixed method: 96.22, 94.79, 97.5, 95.37, 92.98, 9

(1) test for normality result and interpretation;

Tests of Normalitya

Kolmogorov-Smirnovb Shapiro-Wilk

Teaching Method Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig.

Final Grade Computerized .128 19 .200* .948 19 .371

*. This is a lower bound of the true significance.
a. Teaching Method = Computerized
b. Lilliefors Significance Correction

Tests of Normalitya

Kolmogorov-Smirnovb Shapiro-Wilk

Teaching Method Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig.

*
Final Grade Traditional .128 19 .200 .948 19 .371

*. This is a lower bound of the true significance.

a. Teaching Method = Traditional
b. Lilliefors Significance Correction

Tests of Normalitya

Kolmogorov-Smirnovb Shapiro-Wilk

Teaching Method Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig.

*
Final Grade Mixed .141 15 .200 .967 15 .817

*. This is a lower bound of the true significance.

a. Teaching Method = Mixed
b. Lilliefors Significance Correction

INTERPRETATION: Since the p-value of the Computerized method (0.371), Traditional method (0.371),

and Mixed method (0.817) are greater than the alpha of 0.05, we can conclude that the distributions are

normally distributed; thus, we can proceed to the performance of one-way ANOVA.

(2) Statistical tool to be used and its justification;

(3) hypotheses (it should be specific to the problem);

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BIOSTATISTICS

(4) test result;

(5) decision and conclusion (please include Levene's test for homogeneity of variances, ANOVA or
Welch ANOVA table, Tukey or Games-Howell tests).