SOCC23H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Categorical Variable, Frequency Distribution, Pie Chart
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Describe some aspect of the world (univariate descriptive statistics) Describe how things are related (bivariate/multivariate descriptive statistics) Draw a conclusion about the wider world from a smaller part of it a sample drawn from a larger population. Mode of travel to class (walking, ttc, bike, car, other) Level of interest in statistics ( i already hate it ; i"m ok with it ; this is actually better than i thought it would be ) Descriptive univariate statistics frequency distributions (and related graphical tools) central tendency. How often each score of a variable occurs in a distribution. Frequency distributions require that variable categories be exhaustive and mutually exclusive. An example of a frequency distribution for categorical data. [198 countries not shown for sake of space] None of these countries at the top or bottom happen to have a woman as a head of state.
