’’’{r} library(readxl) library(ggpubr) library(rmarkdown) #import dataset A4Q1 <- read_excel(“Desktop/AA-5221-22 Applied Analytics & Methods I/A4Q1.xlsx”) View(A4Q1)
#create scatterplot ggscatter(A4Q1, “age”, “education”, add = “reg.line”, xlab = “age”, ylab = “education”) # The dots form a straight-line pattern, and the pattern is linear. This dataset best fits what is required for a Pearson Correlation #There is a positive relationship between the variables # There is a moderate relationship between the variables # There are no meaningful outliners that would change the direction or slope of the line mean(A4Q1\(age) 35.32634 sd(A4Q1\)age) 11.45344 median(A4Q1\(age) 35.79811 mean(A4Q1\)education) 13.82705 sd(A4Q1\(education) 2.595901 median(A4Q1\)education) 14.02915 #create histogram for age hist(A4Q1\(age, main = "age", breaks = 20, col = "lightblue", border = "white", cex.main = 1, cex.axis= 1, cex.lab = 1) hist(A4Q1\)education, main = “education”, breaks = 20, col = “lightblue”, border = “white”, cex.main = 1, cex.axis = 1, cex.lab = 1) #Variable 1 Age #Variable 1 age looks normally distributed #The data is symetrical #The data has a proper bell curve #Variable 2 Education #Variable 2 Educatioin looks normally distributed #The data is symetrical #The data has a proper bell curve #normality tests shapiro.test(A4Q1\(age) #Shapiro-Wilk normality test data: A4Q1\)age #W = 0.99194, p-value = 0.5581 shapiro.test(A4Q1\(education) #Shapiro-Wilk normality test data: A4Q1\)education #W = 0.9908, p-value = 0.4385 data: A4Q1\(age #Variable 1: Age #The first variable is normally distributeed P=0.5581 #Variable 2: Education #The second variable is normally distributed P=0.4385 #Overall data is normal. Use Pearson Correlation cor.test(A4Q1\)age, A4Q1\(education, method = "pearson") #Pearson's product-moment correlation #data: A4Q1\)age and A4Q1$education #t = 7.4066, df = 148, p-value = 9.113e-12 #alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0 #95 percent confidence interval: # 0.3924728 0.6279534 #sample estimates: # cor #0.5200256

#A Pearson correlation was conducted to test the relationship between Age (M = 35.32, SD = 11.45) and Education (M = 13.82, SD = 2.60). #There was a statistical significant relationship between the two variables, r(148) = p<.001 #The relationship was positive and strong #As Age increased, education increased install.packages(“rmarkdown”)