:-) thats fine. Thanks all for the quick help on this tread!

So, can't I make a Hypothesis as "Significant levels of costs are high among my sample"? using this data?

thanks
Eranga

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Hi

Thanks for quick reply. When the mean values is higher the significant level of cost is high. For instant i asked about Hardware cost, mean value of that data column is 4.08 ( Sum of response values/ N). So that cost significant level is high. I dont want to compare groups. I have a hypothesis as " E-commerce related Costs are highly significant (highly important)"

is that make a sense
thanks
Eranga

Hi,

Im a masters student. Currently working on my final thesis. There i have a likert scale questions about e-commerce related costs(15 cost variables). If cost are highly significant respondents may strongly agree with the question. Likewise there are 1-5 rating where 1=strongly disagree, 2= disagree, 3= indifference, 4=agree and 5=strongly agree. I need to set an hypothesis as the costs are highly significant in my sample.

Can i use analysis where it calculate the mean value of the response with Standard deviation? would that analysis provide a good interpretation to prove my Hypothesis? If not what kind of Statical method should I use?

Please help me on this issue asap!
thanks very much
Eranga