Hi On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Cheri Budzynski wrote:
> A few students in my experimental class are conducting a study that > examines taxonomic and thematic structural organization in preschoolers > and college students. The essence of the study is that they are > presenting eight objects to ten preschoolers and ten college students > and asking them to categorize based on thematic or taxonomic > organization. They are just about ready to analyze the data and I > suggested a nonparametric test. The chi-square would be great for > comparing the two groups but there is a repeated measures component > (which could be dealt with by using the Friedman's chi square). > Unfortunately I don't think there is a nonparametric that deals with a > mixed design. Does anyone know of one? > Thanks in advance. It is not clear from this description why some derived score cannot be calculated and analyzed by parametric methods (mixed anova). Perhaps some more information would help. Is there just one trial with all 8 objects, or individual trials for each object? Do they perform the classification task twice, once for taxonomic and once for thematic? Is there a correct response that can be identified for each object? What were the count data that you were going to analyze via non-parametrics? Best wishes Jim ============================================================================ James M. Clark (204) 786-9757 Department of Psychology (204) 774-4134 Fax University of Winnipeg 4L05D Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark ============================================================================ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
