SOAN 3120 Lecture Notes - Children'S Book Council Of Australia, Histogram, Statistical Inference
1 Oct 2013
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September 10, 2013 quantitative methods soan 3120*02. Analysis ask questions, figure out how to get answers, collect data, analyze if you have quant. Data you use statistical means to analyze and interpretive means for qualitative. Theory can help guide us on way we ask our questions, how, what we are looking for and our lit. review sets up what has been asked before and research done before. From hypothesis, you collect data, you have observations, could be sending out a survey, conducting interviews, etc. Variable independent the cause causing something: dependent - the effect, the results, the consequence. Quantitative: numerical values: can do arithmetic, add, subtract them recorded in units of measurement (seconds, kilograms, etc. ) counts like the number of individuals registered in this class! Don"t need to be whole numbers, can be fractions or have decimal places. Meaningful to have a ratio which is essentially two values divided by one value into the other value relative frequencies.
