library(rstatix)
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## Attaching package: 'rstatix'
## The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
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## filter
library(dplyr)
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## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
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## filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(effectsize)
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## cohens_d, eta_squared, omega_squared
library(effsize)
library(readxl)
library(ggpubr)
## Loading required package: ggplot2
A6Q2 <- read_excel("//apporto.com/dfs/SLU/Users/brentgallagher_slu/Desktop/A6Q2.xlsx")
Before <- A6Q2$Before
After <- A6Q2$After
Differences <- After - Before
mean(Before, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 76.13299
median(Before, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 75.95988
sd(Before, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 7.781323
mean(After, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 57.17874
median(After, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 58.36459
sd(After, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 14.39364
# Before - mean: 76.13, median: 75.96, sd: 7.81
# After - mean: 57.18, median: 58.36, sd: 14.39
hist(Differences,
breaks = 15,
col = "blue",
border = "white")

# Data for the difference scores appears abnormally distributed.
boxplot(Differences,
main = "Distribution of Score Differences (After - Before)",
ylab = "Difference in Scores",
col = "blue",
border = "darkblue")

# The difference scores boxplot does have outliers.
shapiro.test(Differences)
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## Shapiro-Wilk normality test
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## data: Differences
## W = 0.89142, p-value = 0.02856
# Shapiro-Wilk Normality test - w = 0.89, p-value = 0.029
# The data is abnormally distributed, (p = .029)
wilcox.test(Before, After, paired = TRUE, na.action = na.omit)
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## Wilcoxon signed rank exact test
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## data: Before and After
## V = 210, p-value = 1.907e-06
## alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0
# Data: Before and After, v = 210, p-value = 1.907e-06
# Alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0.
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 0.877 20 20 large
# A Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test was conducted to determine if there was a difference in Outcome Variable before Independent Variable versus after Independent Variable.
# The effect size was large, r = 0.88.