A judge mandates that juvenile offenders who have priors be assigned to a trained delinquency prevention mentor. To assess this intervention, offenders will be randomly assigned to one of three groups: No mentor, a peer mentor who is 3 to 5 years older than the offender, or an adult mentor who is 10 or more years older than the offender. The following data will be gathered on each participant: Probation officer’s compliance evaluation (0% . . . 100%), and truancy (number of unexcused missed classes for the semester: 0–6 per day).
Data set: Ch 07 – Exercise 03A.sav
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Variable: Group
Definition: Mentor group assignment
Type: Categorical (1 = No mentor, 2 = Peer mentor, 3 = Adult mentor)
Variable: Probation_compliance
Definition: Probation officer’s overall assessment of the youth’s probation compliance
Type: Continuous (0 = Completely noncompliant . . . 100 = Completely compliant)

Variable: Truancy
Definition: Total number of unexcused missed classes for the semester
Type: Continuous
a. Write the hypotheses.
b. Run each criterion of the pretest checklist (n quota, normality, moderate correlation, homogeneity of variance-covariance [Box’s M test], and homogeneity of variance [Levene’s test]) and discuss your findings.
c. Run the MANOVA test and document your findings (ns, means, and Sig. [p value], hypotheses resolution).
d. Write an abstract under 200 words detailing a summary of the study, the MANOVA test results, hypothesis resolution, and implications of your findings.