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Scenario and context

Scenario and context - SPSS Statistics Tutorial

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Scenario and context

- [Instructor] We just dealt with one independent variable in ANOVA. In that case, maybe some previous research suggested a salary gap between these three majors, and you want to test it out. Now, let's see what happens when we use two independent variables. Let's say that, hypothetically speaking, you've run a one-way ANOVA on the independent variable of college degree, and determined that there's a difference in one of the groups. Upon looking at the pairwise comparisons, you determine that finance majors have a higher mean salary than the other two. That's great, but now you hear people saying that students from private schools have more business connections, and thus a higher salary. And you're thinking, "well, maybe I want "to apply this hypothesis to my data set." Let's set a variable for type of college, and that's going to be public or private, to our college degree, which is kinesiology, finance, and engineering. So now, we have two independent variables: college type, and…

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