SOCI 217 Lecture Notes - Research, Content Analysis, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Goal: to identify and explain relationships among variables through measurement and statistical analysis. Most appropriate: to identify general patterns and relationships, to test theories, to make predictions. [the bigh 5 steps: creating questions, theory-driven (deductive, empirically-driven (inductive, theory and literature review, research method, content analysis, experiments, surveys, collect and analyze data. Measures of central tendency: mean, mode, median. Measures of dispersion: 1) range and 2) standard deviation. Significance of relationship: measured by magnitude and direction. R2 : the percentage (%) of dv explained by the line, iv to be more accurate is by increasing the iv. Equation of line, y = (y-intercept) + (slope coefficient)(x) + (error) R2 : the percentage (%) of dv is explained by the line, iv. Equation of line: y = (y-intercept) + (slope coefficient 1)(x1) + (slope coefficient 2) (x2) + .
