SOC200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Interval Ratio, Mexican Cuisine, Central Tendency
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Introduction to quantitative analysis: techniques for quantifying (coding) and cleaning data, quantitative analysis terms and examples, univariate analysis (1 variable, subgroup comparisons & bivariate analysis (2 variables, multivariate analysis (3 or more variables) An approach to analyzing social science data in which: The observations are represented and manipulated numerically . To describe and explain the phenomena represented by those observations. Ex. percentage of persons at party by sex: female =1 and male =2 (coding, 5 people coded by 1 and 5 people coded by 2. Has been used for hundred of years even in egyptian times to make pyramids. The increase of cheap processing power in recent decades has increased the possibilities of quantitative analysis: using computers to process and make calculations, capable of doing more things on the computer with quantitative analysis. This convenience has increased the demand among researchers, governments, and other bodies, for quantitatively analyzed data.
