Deck 18: Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About

Question 1

Which of the following advanced procedures is characterized by the use of more than one dependent variable?

A) ANOVA
B) ANCOVA
C) Repeated measures
D) MANOVA

Answer 1

D

Question 2

If you want to equalize initial differences between two groups before examining group differences, what procedure would you use?

A) ANOVA
B) ANCOVA
C) Repeated measures
D) MANOVA

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which regression analysis has more than one predictor variable?

A) multiple
B) covariance
C) repeated measures
D) factor

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of these allows you to determine the best combination of dependent variables?

A) MANOVA
B) SEM
C) EFA
D) ANCOVA

Question 5

The major difference between SEM and other advanced techniques, such as factor analysis, is that SEM is what type of technique?

A) confirmatory
B) exploratory
C) compensatory
D) factorial

Question 6

What type of analysis examines the direction of relationships through the postulation of some theoretical relationship between variables and then uses a test to see if the direction of these relationships is substantiated by the data?

A) data mining
B) repeated measures
C) path analysis
D) factor analysis

Question 7

Which of the following is sometimes referred to as an "umbrella" term for techniques such as regression, path analysis, and factor analysis?

A) MANOVA
B) SEM
C) EFA
D) ANCOVA

Question 8

Which of these is a way to look for patterns in sets of data, which was first used by the business community looking at (and for) financial trends?

A) data mining
B) repeated measures
C) path analysis
D) factor analysis

Question 9

Of the following, which procedure is sometimes referred to as a "data reduction" method because it allows a researcher to explore how items on a particular measure cluster together?

A) Path analysis
B) SEM
C) Factor analysis
D) MANOVA

Question 10

Which ANOVA uses more than one dependent variable?

A) repeated measures
B) path analysis
C) covariance
D) multivariate

Question 11

Of the following, which analysis can test relationships over time?

A) repeated measures
B) covariance
C) path analysis
D) ANOVA

Question 12

What type of analysis examines how well items are related to each other?

A) multiple
B) covariance
C) repeated measures
D) factor

Question 13

In order to equalize groups on initial differences, which analysis should be used?

A) repeated measures
B) covariance
C) path analysis
D) ANOVA

Question 14

Which Excel data analysis tool is applied to determine how more than one variable can predict another?

A) Correlation
B) Regression
C) Covariance
D) ANOVA

Question 15

For which of the following procedures can you use the Excel Data Analysis Toolpak procedure ANOVA: Two Factor with Replication?

A) ANOVA
B) ANCOVA
C) Repeated measures
D) MANOVA

Question 16

Which of the following is a path analysis technique used to present results in a graphical representation of the relationship between all the different factors under consideration?

A) data mining
B) structural equation modeling
C) covariance
D) ANOVA

Question 17

Which of the following examines data to see if a theoretical relationship is sustained?

A) repeated measures
B) covariance
C) path analysis
D) ANOVA

Question 18

If a researcher wants to examine the direction of a relationship between two variables such that he or she posits that one variable causes the other, what type of statistical procedure would be used?

A) Correlation
B) ANOVA
C) Repeated measures
D) Path analysis

Question 19

Which of the following allows you to equalize initial differences between groups?

A) analysis of variance
B) analysis of covariance
C) structural equation modeling
D) factor analysis

Question 20

Which of the following examines group difference on just one dependent variable?

A) repeated measures
B) covariance
C) path analysis
D) ANOVA