COMM 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Protestantism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2002
• Professor: Heather Pyman

Document Summary

Nominal: answer is a set of distinct categories. Catholic = 1, muslim = 2, jewish = 3, protestant = 4, spss just see the simplest number arbitrary. Ordinal: response categories with order to them no measurable distance between variables. E. x. strongly agree 1, agree 2, neither agree or disagree 3, strongly disagree 4 high agreement to disagreement real values. Interval: response categories have order plus equal measurable distance between categories have real numerical value. Have more points on a scale that people can select. Number of people or cases in each category. Non-response categories often need to be removed ex. Specific categories of variables need to be removed. We can use statistics to mathematically describe the distribution. Mean - interval only ( x = x/n) : sum, x: values, n: sample size sum all values in distribution, then divide by total number of values. Middle point within entire range of values. Most frequently occurring value not distorted by outliers.