Psychology A-Level
critical values
What critical values means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of critical values
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Reference: OCR
Values taken from a table for the sample size or degrees of freedom, the number of tails and the level chosen, with which the calculated value is compared.
Topics that use critical values
- Data recording, analysis and presentation (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- ethical guidelines
- levels of measurement
- mathematical requirements
- measures of central tendency
- measures of dispersion
- participant and researcher effects
- raw data tables
- reliability and validity
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