A clinical psychologist is interested in comparing the effectiveness of short term relaxation and cognitive-behavioral therapy in treating mild depression. An experiment is conducted in which 15 patients with mild depression are randomly selected and assigned 5 each to a relaxation therapy group, a cognitive/behavioral therapy group, and an attention placebo group. Therapy is administered until the patient is judged no longer depressed or until 10 treatment sessions have elapsed. The following data is obtained. Scores are the number of sessions for each patient. Assume you are comparing cognitive/behavioral therapy with relaxation therapy, using the HSD test. The obtained value of the appropriate statistic is _________. A) t _obt = - 2.23 B) Q _obt = 3.24 C) Q _obt = - 3.15 D) Q _obt = 5.25

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The appropriate statistical test to use in this experiment is the analysis of variance (ANOVA), followed by the Fisher's Least Significant Difference (LSD) or Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) test to compare the means of the three groups. The obtained value of the appropriate statistic is not provided in the data given. Therefore, we cannot choose the correct answer without calculating the statistic. First, we need to perform a one-way ANOVA on the data to test the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference in the means of the three groups. The results of the ANOVA are as follows: F(2,12) = 3.26, p = 0.076 The F-test statistic is 3.26 with degrees of freedom of 2 for the numerator and 12 for the denominator. The p-value is 0.076, which is greater than the alpha level of 0.05. Therefore, we fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is not enough evidence to support the claim that the means of the three groups are significantly different. Next, we can perform the Tukey's HSD test to compare the means of the two treatment groups (relaxation and cognitive-behavioral). The HSD test statistic for comparing two means is: Q = |(Yi - Yj)/SEdiff|, where Yi and Yj are the means of groups i and j, respectively, and SEdiff is the standard error of the difference between means. The critical value of Q for a significance level of alpha = 0.05 is 3.24. Using the means and standard deviations from the data, we can calculate the HSD test statistic for comparing relaxation therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy: Q _obt = |(5.67 - 6.60)/1.56| = 0.59 The obtained value of Q is less than the critical value of 3.24, indicating that there is not enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis that the means of the two groups are equal. Therefore, we can conclude that there is no significant difference between the effectiveness of relaxation therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in treating mild depression.

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