There are two variables x= teaching skills and y= conflicts in student groups. I have a data set where teacher messages are tagged with different teaching skills and group messages are tagged with different group problems. My hiphotesis is that the lack of teaching skills is related with the presence of group conflicts. How could I know is there is relationship between teaaching skills and group conflicts? Is there a data mining technique to find a kind of association between both variables?
Hello pablo,
You can apply correlation methods such as pearson's correlation or spearman's correlation to find the relationship between variables.
Even for regression you will need to establish correlation among the two variables.
Hope you have relevant data scores for both the parameters teaching skills and group conflict. Also it is not clear when you say group conflict? Group of teachers or students? does your hypothesis have some background data to back it, that there exists some correlation?
Thanks all for your answers. When I say "Group conflict" I refer to group of students.
I don't have background data to back my hypothesis. I want to process a Database in order to discover if there exists a relationship between group conflict and teaching skills.
Dear Claudia,
I am afraid a I won't be able to use discriminant analysis because I've read this technique works with quantitative variables. Group conflict as well as teacher skills are categorical variables.
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