PSYC 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Histogram, Unimodality, Frequency Distribution
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Audio recording started: 10:12 am tuesday, 3 july 2018. Course objectives: analyse data, understand different types of data, choose the right type of analysis, do the analyses. Interpret data: make conclusions based on data analysis, understand the limitations of the data/analysis, evaluate others" analyses and interpretations. 5 labs: generate data, coglabs and survey. Audio recording started: 10:58 am tuesday, 3 july 2018. Variable - property/characteristics of some event, object or person that may have different values at different times depending on the conditions. Iv - a variable that is systematically manipulated by the researcher: dv - the variable that is measured to determine if the iv has an effect. Slide 5 page 7 of textbook: descriptive statistics, describing the data you have collected. Inferential statistics: using data gathered on a sample to make inferences about a population, population, the complete set of people, objects or scores the researcher is interested in.
