Exam 10: A Synopsis of Selected Statistical Tests for Examining Ordinal Data

Mann-Whitney U test is helpful in determining whether two groups differ on their responses to an ordinal variable.

If you would like to determine whether mothers and fathers differ on their level of agreement on a five-point ordinal scale with the statement "children should be given primacy in a household," you would employ:

The Spearman correlation coefficient can be used in an analysis of an interval level variable and an ordinal variable, the ideal application is for a study of the relationship between:

For categorical data, people are placed into categories that have no order.

When you have a variable such as birth order ranked and the other is nominal such as ethnic background that has more than two categories with the data drawn from independent samples, you will employ the:

When you are comparing three groups of people rather than comparing two sets of scores from the same people, you have:

Non-parametric statistical tests such as Mann-Whitney U Test are useful in analyzing data for variables measured at the interval level.

When a researcher is interested in measuring whether two groups differ on their responses to an ordinal variable, which test is the apt one to be used? Provide an example.