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Statistics (dealing with data)
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- 1Central Tendencymean, median and mode
tell about the middle of the data not the spread - 2Nominal/catagoricaldata falls into deferent categories
(not measurable - eye colour) - 3Ordinalcan be placed in an order but difference between data not the same
(race - 1st, 2nd, 3rd) - 4Interval and ratiocan be placed in order but the difference is the same (temperature, weight & height)
NB. ratio cannot have negative numbers - 5Measures of dispersionrange & standard deviation
tell the spread of the data - 6rangedifference between smallest and biggest values
- 7Standard deviationhow close each value is to the mean
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- AS Level Psychology (Research Methods) Flashcards on Statistics (dealing with data), created by Ellie Lyon on 12/10/2014.
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