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SNHP 8200
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- 1VariableAnything that can be measured and can differ across entities or across time.
- 2ConstructThe idea associated with a label given to a concept or variable.
- 3Nominal VariableA categorical variable with two or more categories without an intrinsic order.
Examples: gender (male/female) and race (White/Black/Asian, etc.) - 4Ordinal VariableA categorical variable with two or more categories that can be ranked into a meaningful order, but no equal distance between categories.
Example: Rating (poor, good, very good, excellent). - 5Dichotomous VariableA categorical variable with only two categories.
Examples: Yes/No or Good/Bad - 6Interval VariableA continuous variable measuring a construct along a continuum with equal distance between points, but without a true zero.
Example: IQ test score - 7Ratio VariableA continuous variable measuring a construct along a continuum with equal distance between points with a true zero.
Example: Weight - 8Independent VariableVariable of interest (predictor variable) that influences the dependent (outcome) variable.
- 9Dependent VariableVariable of interest (outcome variable) that is influenced by the independent (predictor) variable.
- 10Covariate VariableA variable that is not the focus of a study, but that is included in the study because it influences either the dependent or independent variable.
- 11PopulationTotal set of individuals, groups, objects or events being studied.
- 12SampleSubset of people, objects, groups or events selected from a population.
- 13Descriptive StatisticsStatistics used to describe characteristics of a sample or population.
- 14Inferential StatisticsStatistics used to make predictions about a population based on the observations made from the sample.
- 15Parametric StatisticsGroup of statistical tests used to analyze data that make certain assumptions about data, e.g. normal distribution of scores.
- 16Non-Parametric StatisticsGroup of statistical tests used to analyze data that make fewer assumptions about data, e.g. non-normal distribution of scores.
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