HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Books Of Kings, Univariate, Pie Chart
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Statistical applications: descriptive statistics summarize data to provide information about the world in an easy way, use a single number to summarize a large amount of information to understand it. Inferential statistics use a smaller number of cases to make true statements about the population. Independent variables are those that are considered to be the cause: dependent variables are those that are considered to be the effect, depend on the independent variables for at least part of variation. 2: we can think of variables in terms of the categories that divide them, ex, gender usually only has two categories (male and female, age could have as many as 100, all in some sort of order. Cell phones should be banned in most classrooms at universities: strongly agree, b) agree, c) neither agree or disagree, d) disagree, strongly disagree a agrees the most, d agrees less than c, etc.
