Instruction: For this assignment, you first will identify a topic of interest that you might want to pursue for research. You are not tied to this topic when you reach the dissertation sequence, but it should be a topic that you find interesting now and also relates to your program and specialization. Please make sure you explicitly state your interest in this topic in your introduction.
Next, conduct a literature search using the library to locate two studies examining your selected topic and in which the researchers used two different non-parametric statistics. In your search for articles, you should use any combination of the term “non-parametric” as well as the different tools discussed in this module (e.g., Wilcoxon, Kruskal-Wallis, Spearman, Friedman, etc.).
Once you have located your articles, you will prepare a short paper using the following format:
- Introduction to the selected topic of interest
- Brief summary of first article
- Include research question, statistical test(s), and general findings
- Brief summary of second article
- Include research question, statistical test(s), and general findings
- Synthesis
- Specifically, compare and contrast the two articles, assessing the types of statistical methods and analysis used. Make sure you fully understand and narrate why the researchers chose a non-parametric approach and in particular what tradeoffs they had to deal with.
- Conclusion
- Assess what approach you might take if you were to conduct a study in this topic area. What circumstances would require non-parametric techniques?
Length: 3 pages, including title page and reference page.
References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.