Sociology 2205A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Exploratory Data Analysis, Bar Chart, Pie Chart

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2205A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lin

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By the end of chapter 2: you will know how to create and interpret univariate descriptives for categorical variables review the difference between nominal and ordinal variables, numerical: frequency table, graphical: bar graph. Numerical descriptives: frequency table, or table, univariate table, univariate frequency table, the easiest way to remember univariate is because uni means one this is the easiest form of measuring data because it only has one (uni) variable! Results (from the table: boring, dry, precise, fairy repetitive. No editorializing: "in the sample, 13% completed less than high school. 29% completed high school, 6% completed junior college, 29% had bachelor"s degree, and 23% completed a graduate degree. " Summary/conclusion: "over half completed at least a bachelor"s degree. Professor stephen lin: pie charts are less effective as it is more difficult to interpret the distribution, pie charts are rarely used in statistics.