COMM 2002 Study Guide - Final Guide: Skewness, Type I And Type Ii Errors, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2002
• Professor: Heather Pyman

Document Summary

For specific definitions, please refer to your course textbook. The purpose of this document is to help you understand the concepts using normal discourse. * this is the most fundamental thing about quantitative. Tattoo it on your face if you have to. A topic/concept is not limited to one of these three levels of measurement. Anything can be any of these three. ex: the topic of baseball ex1: do you like baseball? (nominal) No ex2: how often do you watch baseball? (ordinal) very often. Never ex3: how many baseball games a week do you watch? (interval) Again, there is no order, and the answers are not quantifiable - green is not > black. There is an order to these answers however. There is an order to these variables, and they are quantifiable. If someone answered 3, i know they meant 3. The number 3 does not belong to a larger group like ordinal variables.