Sociology 2205A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Contingency Table, Central Tendency, Univariate Analysis

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

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Prep thursday: this week we are beginning to discuss bivariate descriptives (for pairs of variables). What variable type is the crosstab for: variable 1: categorical, variable 2: categorical, which three measures of central tendency have we covered last week, mean, median and mode. What crosstabs tell us: whether there appears to be a relationship between two (categorical) variables in a sample. Professor stephen lin: what is the overall pattern of the relationship, for nominal variables, we cannot talk about positive or negative association, for nominal, you cannot rank categories, the list is not ordered in rank, talk about patterns. Elements of crosstabs/bivariate tables: crosstabs, display the number or proportion of cases on two different variables at the same time, dependent variables in rows, participation rates. Independent variable across columns: rows and column marginals, female, sex, 50, cells, rows, marginals, cells. Example: page 342 - table 11. 8: crosstab table. Professor stephen lin: age group, dependent variable.