SOC202H1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Sampling Distribution, Null Hypothesis, Test Statistic
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Describe some aspect of the world (univariate descriptive statistics) data reduction. Describe how things are related (bivariate/multivariate descriptive statistics) measures of association (cannot prove by themselves how variables are causally related, however, give clues) Draw a conclusion about the wider world from a smaller part of it a sample drawn from a larger population. This is an era of unprecedented quantitative data. Statistical savvy is increasingly in demand in both the private and public sectors. Math is used in this course b/c mathematical expressions offer a precision that is hard to achieve in everyday english: however, a very few of us communicate in mathematical form. Independent vs. dependent variables their role in causal theories: value of independent variable varies, the value of dependent variable is dependent on the independent variable. 1: a hypothesis formal statement that an x variable has a particular type of relationship (positive or negative) with a y variable.
