RBUS2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Standard Deviation, Literal And Figurative Language, Frequency Distribution
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The building blocks of research: theor(cid:455): (cid:862)thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g" a(cid:271)out a pro(cid:271)le(cid:373, concept and constructs: building blocks of our theories, variables: measures of our concepts or constructs, models: representations of our theories. Theoretical frameworks: represents how certain phenomena (or variables or concepts) are related to each other (a model) and an explanation of why people believe that these variables are associated with each other (theory) Is an attribute of an object/person that can change from person to person or from an object to object: length, height, sex, weight, can be observed and measured, a person/object/organisation can be described by several variables. Interested in understanding the relationship between and among variables. Explanatory variable or iv, influences or explains variance in a. Can be measures or systematically manipulated to reveal effect on dv. Represents the outcome in which a researcher is interested. Values are dependent to some extent on the iv. Dv is expected to change in response to changes in iv.
