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':
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## filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(effectsize)
library(effsize)
library(readxl)
library(rstatix)
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## Attaching package: 'rstatix'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:effectsize':
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## cohens_d, eta_squared, omega_squared
## The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
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## filter
A6Q1 <- read_excel("C:/Users/USER/OneDrive - Saint Louis University/AA 5221/Assignment 6/A6Q1.xlsx")
View(A6Q1)
beforeb <- A6Q1$Before
afterb <- A6Q1$After
Differences <- afterb-beforeb
# Descriptive Statistics for Before
mean(beforeb, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 76.13299
median(beforeb, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 75.95988
sd(beforeb, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 7.781323
#Descriptive statistics for After
mean(afterb, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 71.58994
median(afterb, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 70.88045
sd(afterb, na.rm = TRUE)
## [1] 6.639509
#Histogram
hist(Differences,
breaks = 15,
col = "blue",
border = "white")

#Interpretations
#Data for the difference scores appears normally distributed
#Boxplot
boxplot(Differences,
main = "Distribution of Score Differences (afterb - beforeb)",
ylab = "Difference in Scores",
col = "blue",
border = "red")

#Interpretation of Boxplot
# The difference scores boxplot has one outlier.
#Shapiro wilk test
shapiro.test(Differences)
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## Shapiro-Wilk normality test
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## data: Differences
## W = 0.94757, p-value = 0.3318
#Shapiro-Wilk Difference Scores
#The data is normally distributed, (p = .33).
#The Dependent T-Test
t.test(beforeb, afterb, paired = TRUE, na.action = na.omit)
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## Paired t-test
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## data: beforeb and afterb
## t = 1.902, df = 19, p-value = 0.07245
## alternative hypothesis: true mean difference is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
## -0.4563808 9.5424763
## sample estimates:
## mean difference
## 4.543048
#Calculate the cohen's d(Effect Size)
cohen.d(beforeb, afterb, paired = TRUE)
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## Cohen's d
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## d estimate: 0.6284306 (medium)
## 95 percent confidence interval:
## lower upper
## -0.1035207 1.3603820
#Report the Dependent T-Test
# A Dependent T-Test was conducted to determine if there was a difference in body weight between before and after a low-calorie diet.
#before scores (M= 76.13, SD = 7.78,) were significantly different from after scores (M=71.59, SD = 6.64), t(19) = 1.90, p < .05.
#The effect size was Large, Cohen's d = .63.