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Cronbach's Alpha: Cohen's D Is An Effect Size Used To Indicate The Standardised Difference Between Two Means. It Can

Cronbach's alpha measures the internal consistency of a group of items as a scale for reliability. It is not a statistical test but a coefficient of reliability. Exploratory factor analysis can additionally check the dimensionality of a scale. A scree plot graphs the total variance explained by each principal component in decreasing order to identify how many components should be retained. Zero-order correlations indicate no factors have been controlled for between two variables X and Y. First-order correlations control for a third factor Z, and second-order correlations control for factors Z and A. Cohen's d measures the standardized difference between two means and is commonly used to report t-test and ANOVA results as well as in meta-analyses

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Cronbach's Alpha: Cohen's D Is An Effect Size Used To Indicate The Standardised Difference Between Two Means. It Can

Cronbach's alpha measures the internal consistency of a group of items as a scale for reliability. It is not a statistical test but a coefficient of reliability. Exploratory factor analysis can additionally check the dimensionality of a scale. A scree plot graphs the total variance explained by each principal component in decreasing order to identify how many components should be retained. Zero-order correlations indicate no factors have been controlled for between two variables X and Y. First-order correlations control for a third factor Z, and second-order correlations control for factors Z and A. Cohen's d measures the standardized difference between two means and is commonly used to report t-test and ANOVA results as well as in meta-analyses

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Cronbach’s alpha

Cronbach’s alpha is a measure of internal consistency, that is, how closely related
a set of items are as a group. It is considered to be a measure of scale reliability.
A “high” value for alpha does not imply that the measure is unidimensional. If, in
addition to measuring internal consistency, you wish to provide evidence that the
scale in question is unidimensional, additional analyses can be performed.
Exploratory factor analysis is one method of checking dimensionality. Technically
speaking, Cronbach’s alpha is not a statistical test – it is a coefficient of reliability
(or consistency).

Scree plot

A Scree Plot is a simple line segment plot that shows the fraction of total variance
in the data as explained or represented by each PC. The PCs are ordered, and by
definition are therefore assigned a number label, by decreasing order of
contribution to total variance.

Zero order bivariate correlation

Zero-order correlation indicates nothing has been controlled for or “partialed


out” in an experiment. They are any correlation between two variables (X, Y)
where no factor is controlled or held constant.
 If a third factor Z is controlled for, the correlation is first-order;
 If factors Z, A are controlled for, that’s a second-order correlation.

Cohen’s D
Cohen's d is an effect size used to indicate the standardised difference between two means. It can
be used, for example, to accompany reporting of t-test and ANOVA results. It is also widely used
in meta-analysis.
Cohen's d is an appropriate effect size for the comparison between two means. APA style strongly
recommends use of Eta-Squared. Eta-squared covers how much variance in a dependent variable
(DV) is explained by an independent variable (IV), but that IV possibly has multiple levels and hence
partial eta-squared doesn't explain the size of difference between each of the pairwise mean
differences.
MANOVA
Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) is simply an ANOVA with several dependent variables. That
is to say, ANOVA tests for the difference in means between two or more groups, while MANOVA tests
for the difference in two or more vectors of means.

The main objective in using MANOVA is to determine if the response variables (student improvement in
the example mentioned above), are altered by the observer’s manipulation of the independent
variables. Therefore, there are several types of research questions that may be answered by using
MANOVA:

1) What are the main effects of the independent variables?

2) What are the interactions among the independent variables?

3) What is the importance of the dependent variables?

4) What is the strength of association between dependent variables?

5) What are the effects of covariates? How may they be utilized?

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