SSCI 2910U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Descriptive Statistics, Univariate, Social Class
12 Feb 2018
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Example: in a recent survey of university students, statistics canada found that the average age (variable) of university students (cases) in canada was 21. 7 years. Data = the actual ages statistics = the average. Statistical applications: descriptive statistics = describing the samples (ex. What is the marital status: inferential statistics = how we defer out of outcomes. Taking results from the sample and moving onto a population (talking about it) Descriptive statistics- first class of techniques: univariate = when researcher needs to summarize or describe the distribution of a single variable (one variable) Your gpa: bivariate = when researcher wants to describe or summarize the relationship between 2 or more variables. Descriptive stats describe the strength and direction of the relationship between 2 variables. Is it weak or strong: multivariate = summarizing the relationship between 3 or more variables. Commenting on the canadian population, will only take sample of.
