Determine whether the following sampling is dependent or independent. Indicate whether the response variable is qualitative or q
uantitative. A researcher wishes to compare mental health of married lawyers and their spouses. She obtains a random sample of 406 such couples who take a mental health inventory and determines each spouses mental health.
1. Is this dependent or independent? Is it because one sample does or does not dictate the individual to be used in the second sample?
2. Is it quantitative or qualitative? And is that because it is an attribute classification or numerical measure?
Reason-- The researcher considers a couple as a whole and The sampling is dependent because a spouce selected for one sample dictates or determines which individual to be in the second sample.
Step 2----Qualitative variable
Reason--- it classifies the individual spouce mental health based on mental health inventory of the couple
Because Qualitative variables are variables which can be placed according to characteristic or attribute, here the characteristics is mental health.