library(readxl)
library(ggpubr)
## Loading required package: ggplot2
library(dplyr)
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## Attaching package: 'dplyr'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
##
## filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(effectsize)
library(effsize)
library(rstatix)
##
## Attaching package: 'rstatix'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:effectsize':
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## cohens_d, eta_squared
## The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
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## filter
Dataset6_4 <- read_excel("C:/Users/user/Downloads/Dataset6.4.xlsx")
Before <- Dataset6_4$Stress_Pre
After <- Dataset6_4$Stress_Post
Differences <- After - Before
# Descriptive Statistics for Each Group
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
# Histogram of the Difference Scores
hist(Differences,
main = "Histogram of Difference stress",
xlab = "Value",
ylab = "Frequency",
col = "blue",
border = "black",
breaks = 25)

# negatively skewed
# a Boxplot of the Difference Scores
boxplot(Differences,
main = "Distribution of Score Differences (After - Before)",
ylab = "Difference in Scores",
col = "blue",
border = "darkblue")

#There was two outlier in the boxplot. However, not very far away from the whisker.
#: Shapiro-Wilk Test of Normality
shapiro.test(Differences)
##
## Shapiro-Wilk normality test
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## data: Differences
## W = 0.87495, p-value = 0.0008963
#p < .05 (less than .05), the data was NOT normal.
#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
# the two groups was significant (p < .05)
#Rank Biserial Correlation for Mann-Whitney U
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
#The effect size was large (r₍rb₎ = .84).