PSYC 201W Study Guide - Final Guide: Statistical Inference, Categorical Variable, Descriptive Statistics

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 201W
• Professor: Rose Vernon

Document Summary

The type of statistical analysis focused on describing, summarizing or explaining a set of data. The type of statistical analysis focused on making inferences about populations based on sample data. A set of data where the rows are cases and the columns are variables. Data arrangement in which the frequencies of each unique data value is shown. Graph that uses vertical bars to represent the data values of categorical variables. The bars do not touch each other. Used for nominal variables graph depicting frequencies and distribution of a quantitative variable. A graph relying on the drawing of one or more lines connecting data points. Can be useful for pretest and posttest measure to tell the difference between the two. A graphical depiction of the relationship between two quantitative variables. One variable plotted on the x and y axes: continuous, frequency and categorical data, bivariate data, two continuous variables.