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 Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:57 am |
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Hi,
I need some help with my research hypothesis and the statisitical
tests to use.
My research question is
RQ: How are adopters different from nonadopters in the factors that
affect their decision to adopt social network sites (SNSs)?
Under this RQ, I have a few hypotheses and I include a few examples
here:
H1: SNS adopters are more likely to be younger than nonadopters.
H2: SNS adopters are more likely to have higher educational level than
nonadopters.
H3: SNS adopters are more likely to be more innovative than
nonadopters.
Am I correct to say that the dependent variable is adoption (adopter
vs nonadopter) and the independent variable(s) is age/educational
level/innovativeness?
What statistical tests should I use to test these 3 hypotheses? Do I
use logistic regression for H1 and 2? Is it correct if I use
independent samples t-test to test H3?
Any help is very much appreciated. |
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| Stan Devia... |
| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:37 pm |
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On Jun 1, 8:57 pm, sky... at (no spam) gmail.com wrote:
Quote: Hi,
I need some help with my research hypothesis and the statisitical
tests to use.
My research question is
RQ: How are adopters different from nonadopters in the factors that
affect their decision to adopt social network sites (SNSs)?
Under this RQ, I have a few hypotheses and I include a few examples
here:
H1: SNS adopters are more likely to be younger than nonadopters.
H2: SNS adopters are more likely to have higher educational level than
nonadopters.
H3: SNS adopters are more likely to be more innovative than
nonadopters.
Am I correct to say that the dependent variable is adoption (adopter
vs nonadopter) and the independent variable(s) is age/educational
level/innovativeness?
What statistical tests should I use to test these 3 hypotheses? Do I
use logistic regression for H1 and 2? Is it correct if I use
independent samples t-test to test H3?
Any help is very much appreciated.
Yes, you are correct that adoption is the dependent variable under
your model and that age, education & innovativeness are the
independent variables. You could apply logistic regression to all
three of your questions.
But how will you measure "innovativeness"? And have you considered
that innovativeness itself may very well be strongly correlated with
age & education? |
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| Richard Ulrich... |
| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:30 pm |
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 04:57:57 -0700 (PDT), skyhom at (no spam) gmail.com wrote:
Quote: Hi,
I need some help with my research hypothesis and the statisitical
tests to use.
My research question is
RQ: How are adopters different from nonadopters in the factors that
affect their decision to adopt social network sites (SNSs)?
Under this RQ, I have a few hypotheses and I include a few examples
here:
H1: SNS adopters are more likely to be younger than nonadopters.
H2: SNS adopters are more likely to have higher educational level than
nonadopters.
H3: SNS adopters are more likely to be more innovative than
nonadopters.
Am I correct to say that the dependent variable is adoption (adopter
vs nonadopter) and the independent variable(s) is age/educational
level/innovativeness?
What statistical tests should I use to test these 3 hypotheses? Do I
use logistic regression for H1 and 2? Is it correct if I use
independent samples t-test to test H3?
Any help is very much appreciated.
If you are testing them separately, what's wrong with
t-tests for each of them?
Do you want to look at education as categories?
--
Rich Ulrich
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html |
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