SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Household Income In The United States, Univariate Analysis, Univariate
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Quantitative literacy: how to understand basic quantitative analysis. Quantification: converting data to a numerical format. This allows data to be recorded on a computer or some other device for storing information that can be read by a computer for analysis. There are ways we can analyze data in that format that are extremely helpful and using a computer is just one of them; however it is much more computer based. There are different forms of analysis (some are more interpretive, others are making sense of narrative) but quantification is making sense through numbers and quantifying these numbers to make sense in our observation. Quantitative analysis: numerical representation and manipulation of observations for the purpose of describing and explaining the phenomena that those observations reflect. The examination of distribution of cases of only one variable. Frequency of distribution is an example of univariate analysis. Some examples: in a sample, we observe 53% of a sample were men and 47% were women.
