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research methods 1
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- 1populationgroup connected by a characteristic
- 2samplethe people we study to represent the whole population
- 3statistics describe...a population
- 4paramaters describe...a sample
- 5central tendancymean
median
mode - 6modegreat for nominal data, may be more than one mode which can become an issue when interpreting data.
- 7mediangreat for ordinal and interval/ratio data, not really affected by outliers
- 8meangood for interval ratio
- 9measures of variabilityrange
interquartile range
variance
standard deviation - 10—
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- Flashcards on research methods 1, created by Arun Bhatia on 17/10/2016.
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- Arun Bhatia · Oct 2016
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