SOCIOL 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Descriptive Statistics, Line Graph, Central Tendency
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Any row missing any values delete whole row recommendation. 1054 (deleting whole row) no question answered you get this number. Recoded income06 from 25 to 5-6 codes. All tables have a title and value labels. Frequencies shown in percentages not just counts. Explain with discussion of which level of measurement each variable is and why central tendency measure is appropriate. Ratio: years, ordinal: freshman, soph(mode or median whatever makes more sense) (modal group for class years), nominal = mode. Conclusion answers original questions of the assignment (note original question asks for a comparison of buying love vs. happiness. Put back into plain english that can money buy happiness what is more or less effective. Measures of strength and direction (do not need to know how to calculate lambda, gamma) just get big picture what they represent in association. In one number they tell you direction and strength (negative or positive) 0 or -1 or 1.
