Categorical Variables
Social Sciences Building Room 2031
What is the room that we're in?
people may be reluctant to admit to behavior that may reflect negatively on them which affects many surveys
What is Social Acceptability Bias?
possibility for them to be any one value between two whole numbers makes them ___
What is continuous?
What is a Simple Random Sample (SRS)?
The study of information
What is Statistics?
classifying individuals into categories
What is Categorial (Qualitative) Data?
a certain portion of people who are asked to participate in a study refuse to answer
What is Non-Response Bias?
tells how much or how many of something there is (numbers)
What is Quantitative Data?
Divided into sections (stratos) and Simple Random Samples from those sections (randomly choosing individuals). Ex: research studies
What is a Stratified Random Sample?
The description of information
What is Descriptive Statistics?
does not have natural ordering
What is Nominal Data?
conducted by a procedure that produces the correct result on average
What is an Unbiased Study?
Can be divided into discrete and continuous variables
What is Quantitative Data?
randomly choosing groups and each person in those groups are sampled.
What is Cluster Sampling?
Inferring something about the population (a summary)
What is Inferential Statistics?
Has natural ordering
What is Ordinal Data?
when some members of the population are more likely to be included in the sample than others
What is Sampling Bias?
usually written in intervals (fractions, decimals)
What is the Continuous variable?
every nth person on the list
What is Systematic Random Sampling?
all of the individuals being studied
What is a population?
can be divided into ordinal and nominal variables
What is Qualitative Data?
confusing of leading questions can influence the answers given
What is Leading question bias?
in whole numbers to count things
What is a Discrete variable?
members of the population that are easiest to reach
What is a Convenience Sample?
All the pieces of info we collect
What is Data?