Question 1: How do you know when to use an ANOVA? What types of variables are appropriate for its use? Provide examples of variables used in criminal justice research to support your answer.

Question 2: Define between-group and within-group variances. How can they be used in the ANOVA to understand the existence of group effects?

Question 3: What is the F distribution and F statistic? Why are they used with ANOVA?

Question 4: Under what circumstances willFbe small, and when will it be large? Why will the Fstatistic never be negative?

Question 5: Discuss the various post hoc tests. Why are they needed? When are they used? How do you know which ones to use?

Question 6: A researcher is evaluating the effectiveness of a job training program for prison inmates. Inmates are placed into three groups: those who never participated in the program, those who started it and dropped out, and those who completed the program. Six months later, the researcher works with the parole office to assess the employment status of the former inmates, who are placed into two groups: not employed and employed. The researcher plans to analyze the data using an ANOVA. Is this the correct analytic approach? Fully explain your answer.