Data Screening and Transformation

Essay Title: Critically evaluate the importance of data screening techniques and data transformations and explore how they help us to determine the quality of published research.

A good starting point for the essay would be to engage with the lecture slides on Blackboard and to read the relevant chapters on data screening (Andy Field; Tabachnick & Fidell). You will need to conduct literature searches of your own and engage with additional sources relating to data screening and data transformations. In your essay, you will want to provide a description of different data screening procedures and consider what they tell us about a data set. In your answer, you should make reference to the assumptions of parametric analyses, and why violations of such assumptions may exert an impact on the reliability of findings. It will also be necessary to show understanding of the use of data transformations and the impact these have on interpreting the data. Considerable engagement with published sources will be needed to assist you in developing coherent arguments about how we can use our knowledge of data screening and transformations to make judgements about the quality of published studies.

Price: $18.94

Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 7 pages, 1194 words.
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