04:192:300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: No I.D., Qualitative Property, Nomothetic
28 Jan 2020
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To systematically examine patterns in data--the most common experiences, the. Complete & accurate reporting relationships between variables--related to the research questions. Discrete variables - there"s less we can do analytically with them (vs. continuous variables ) Those with mobile-only access less likely to use it. Ways to describe the center point of a set of quantitative data. Your participants report following # of hours spent online yesterday: Mean - add them up and divide by the total number of responses: 5. Median - find the number that is in the middle: 5. Mode - which number appears most often: 5. Means are reported most often; the average . Medians ( md or mdn ) are reported when some extremely high or low values would skew. Modes used to report nominal/categorical data (most common response) Normal distribution : where the sd tells you much more about the distribution of.
