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Week Seven Homework Exercise

Answer the following questions, covering material from Ch. 13 of Methods in Behavioral Research:

1. Define inferential statistics and how researchers use inferential statistics to draw conclusions from sample data.

Involves mathematical procedures that allow psychologists to make inferences about

data which they have collected. An example of this would be if a psychologist wanted to draw

conclusions about a larger population from which samples were collected (Cozby, 2009).

1. Define probability and discuss how it relates to the concept of statistical significance.

Probability is the possibility that an outcome of an experience or an event will occur.

Probability and significance are one in the same. For example if...