NUR 80A/B Lecture 2: Winter Week 2 - Descriptive Statistics/Intro to SPSS
13 Dec 2011
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Winter week 2 - descriptive statistics/intro to spss. Descriptive statistics are used to organize and describe the characteristics of a collection of data. The collection is sometimes called a data set or just data. helps us get a picture of the research sample and findings. Example: if you needed to describe what the most popular college major is, you could use a descriptive statistic that summarizes their choice (called the mode). If you wanted to know the average age, you could compute another descriptive statistic that identifies this variable . A series of tests used to describe, synthesize, organize. Inferential statistics are used to make inferences from a smaller group of data (e. g. 22 college students) to a possibly larger one (e. g. all the undergrads in a college). To help us answer questions and make sense of data. The most basic way to illustrate data is through the creation of a frequency distribution.
