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INTRODUCING DATA ANALYSIS
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You are to work through the slide show and answer the questions as you go along. This exercise is not a race but a learning process, so take your time and make sure that you understand each slide.
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Slides
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What do you understand by the term ‘Quantitative Data’? |
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What do you understand by the term ‘Qualitative Data’? |
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6 – 20 |
What is ‘nominal data’?
How would you represent nominal data graphically? |
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21 – 23 |
What is ordinal data? |
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24 – 30 |
What is ratio data? |
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24 – 30 |
What is interval data? |
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What are the three levels of data? |
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Show that the following set of data represents ratio data:
X 2 4 6 8 Y 26 52 78 104 |
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Show that the following set of data represents interval data:
X 2 4 6 8 Y 39 65 91 117 |
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What methods do you know of for representing nominal data? [Use diagrams to illustrate your answer.]
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