Hi, I am a student at university of Birmingham, studying medical science. As part of one of my modules i have to do bit of stats...So I Hope someone can help me out.
Background to study
A study was carried out to see the effects of sleep deprivation on vigilance and reaction time. The study contained two groups sleep deprived and no sleep deprived groups, both conatined male and female participants. The following was recorded gender, numbers of hours kep awke, vigilance score and reaction time.
The question I am trying to analyse is " consider whether gender mediates relationship between hours of sleep deprived and reaction time"
I have considerd doing following-- do a Pearsons correlation to establish if there is a relation between hours kept awake and reaction time for male and female. Then see if my null hypothesis of r=0 for male and female can be rejected.
But I am confussed on how to show if gender mediates a relationship between the two variables.
So Please let me know what I can do?
Thanks in advance....