select which statistical test is appropriate to analyze the hypothesis given the context of the research scenario. explain the answer with respect to

1. The type of data collected by researchers (i.e., continuous, ordinal, or nominal)

2. Whether researchers are investigating an association/relationship between at least two variables or are instead investigating differences between conditions using the same variable

3. If applicable, the number of conditions and/or factors

4. If applicable, the independence/dependence of observations between conditions

A self-proclaimed health and wellness company contracted statisticians to examine the efficacy of their newly developed dieting program. They provided the statisticians with data from a publicized weight loss competition that they hosted to advertise the release of their new product. For the competition, participants completed the dieting program and were ranked in order of the amount of weight they lost pre- and post-completion of the program. What statistical analysis could the statisticians perform to assess the efficacy of the dieting program? Question 6 (5 marks) A personality psychologist was interested in examining whether the prevalence of narcissism differed between people based on the type of pet they own: cats, dogs, or exotic pets. She administered a questionnaire that probed narcissistic personality traits to randomly selected participants. She collapsed the questionnaire items into a continuous- valued composite index of narcissism prevalence. She included biological sex as a factor in her analysis to examine whether biological sex interacts with pet type to influence the prevalence of narcissism. This gave her a 2x3 experimental design with sex (men, women) and pet type (cat, dog, exotic) as factors