Research Methods in Psychology is a standard required course in pretty much any psychology major. In our department at SUNY New Paltz, this is a four-credit class with a large laboratory component.

Both in the mathematical sense and in the business world, an independent variable is one that stands alone and is not affected by outside forces. When it comes to evaluating cost in business, ...

When predicting a critical variable, such as the quantity of product that will be sold over a specific time span, the business manager can use various approaches. Methods that use cause and effect ...

In science, a variable is something that can be changed, measured or controlled in an experiment. Scientists look at variables to understand how they affect things. A variable is any one of the things ...

Once you have chosen and configured an independent variable, you are ready to choose dependent variable(s). In this illustration, the net electrical output is chosen: When you click on a parameter or ...

I have come across various ways of defining Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Many of them miss a fundamental characteristic ...

A key statistical test in research fields including biology, economics and psychology, analysis of variance (ANOVA) is very useful for analyzing datasets. It allows comparisons to be made between ...

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