My wife and I both have degrees in math and have taken undergrad statistics courses long ago but are having trouble helping our child determine the appropriate statistics to use for her middle school science project and how to translate the result into english for her conclusion.
Her project was to find if short term memory was better for young adults than for younger or older age groups. She devised a memory test and tested 10 people in each of five different age groups. What would be an appropriate statistical test for this hypothesis and data (considering it is for a middle school project)? She has the data in MS Excel and we have the statistics ToolPak and have tried a couple of things with it. It can do t-tests, f-tests, ANOVA, and others. Thanks in advance for any advice, Michael . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
