SOCY 210 Lecture 12: W12b Social statistics & review

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 210
• Professor: Fiona Kay

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Saturday, december 19, y: strategy: test or control variables, we start with the initial relationship, test or control variable, partial relationship: this is the relationship between two variables when examined in a subset of cases defined by the third test variable, zero rdar relationship: the relationship between two variables when no test variables are being controlled for (that is held constant, to begin, we use know whether the test variable is antecedent to the other 2 variables or whether it is interviewing between them, because these positions suggest different logical relationships in the multivariate model, intervening test variable: independent test dependent, antecedent test variable: test variable independent and dependent, replication: no effect, similar to zero order, explanation: detecting spurious relationships, interpretation: assessing intervening variables. Interviews: guided / schedules, focus groups (role of moderator, history, criteria for evaluation for qualitative data, role of ground theory, approaches to coding research.