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Stats
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- 1What is a descriptive statistic?Stats which allows the researcher to describe the basic features of the data with a few indices
- 2What are the types of descriptive statistics?Measures of central tendency
Measures of Variability
Measures of Relationship - 3What is a measure of central tendency?This measures the typical score obtained by a group by using mode, mean and median
- 4What is mode?Mode is the value that occurs with the greatest frequency
- 5What is median?Median refers to the number that occurs in the middle
- 6What is the mean?The average of a set of numbers
- 7What is measures of variabilityProvides an index of the spread of the scores
Standard deviation - 8What are measures of relationship?Looks at the relationship between two of more numerical values
- 9What are measurement scales?These determine the statistical tests required to analyse data:
Nominal scale
Ordinal scale
Interval scale
Ratio scale - 10What is a nominal scale?Used to label data
Uses mode - 11What is an ordinal scale?Observations would be ordered
uses median/mode - 12What is an interval scale?Equal intervals between the points of the scale
- 13What are inferential stats?Determine whether the results from a study can be generalized to the population
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- Action Research FlashCards sobre Stats, criado por Nesha Marshall em 22-10-2019.
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