POL S 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Statistical Graphics, Level Of Measurement, Univariate
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Characteristics of professional presentations of univariate descriptive stats. Numbers to reference in writing (figure 1, 2, etc. ) Choosing correct graphical tools for what you"re working with. We"ll be using a table for our paper. Fox and lawless as a resource (how to nicely present graphs) Create a table, not cut and paste from spss. Looking at one variable in cases (e. g. income in various societies) For ordinal and interval scales - only something quantitative. Decreases accuracy in number of recorded cases by limiting them to category. Draw viewer to data, nothing else (no distractions or chart junk) Never have your data displayed in more dimensions than it possesses (no 3d presentation if data only has 2 dimensions) First thing you want to do is look at the axes and labels. A number that summarizes the relationship we see (how strong or weak correlation is) (r) is the symbol/abbreviation.
