library(readxl)
library(ggpubr)
## Loading required package: ggplot2
library(effectsize)
library(rstatix)
## 
## Attaching package: 'rstatix'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:effectsize':
## 
##     cohens_d, eta_squared
## The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
## 
##     filter
Dataset6.4 <- read_excel("C:/Users/Leyav/Downloads/Dataset6.4.xlsx")
Before <- Dataset6.4$Stress_Pre
After <- Dataset6.4$Stress_Post

Differences <- After - Before
mean(Before, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 51.53601
median(Before, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 47.24008
sd(Before, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 17.21906
mean(After, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 41.4913
median(After, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 40.84836
sd(After, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 18.88901
hist(Differences,
     main = "Histogram of Difference Scores",
     xlab = "Value",
     ylab = "Frequency",
     col = "red",
     border = "black",
     breaks = 20)

the histogram appears negatively skewed and Kurtosis is tall

boxplot(Differences,
        main = "Distribution of Score Differences (After - Before)",
        ylab = "Difference in Scores",
        col = "red",
        border = "darkred")

There are few outliers and seems far from the whisker

shapiro.test(Differences)
## 
##  Shapiro-Wilk normality test
## 
## data:  Differences
## W = 0.87495, p-value = 0.0008963

The p-value was below .05, which means we should proceed with the Wilcoxon Sign Rank.

wilcox.test(Before, After, paired = TRUE)
## 
##  Wilcoxon signed rank exact test
## 
## data:  Before and After
## V = 620, p-value = 2.503e-09
## alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0

If p < .05, (0.000), this means the results were SIGNIFICANT

df_long <- data.frame(
  id = rep(1:length(Before), 2),
  time = rep(c("Before", "After"), each = length(Before)),
  score = c(Before, After)
)

wilcox_effsize(df_long, score ~ time, paired = TRUE)
## # A tibble: 1 × 7
##   .y.   group1 group2 effsize    n1    n2 magnitude
## * <chr> <chr>  <chr>    <dbl> <int> <int> <ord>    
## 1 score After  Before   0.844    35    35 large

There was a significant difference in the dependent variable between before program (Mdn = 47.24) and after program (Mdn = 40.84), V = 620, p = 0.000. The effect size was very large (r₍rb₎ = .84