What is how to use tables to display a relationship between two variables?
100
Univariate analysis
What is the type of analysis that examines only one variable at a time?
100
Dependent Variable
What is the outcome variable?
100
Code Book
What is the listing of all the variables in a data collection with each variable accompanied by the name, description, location, and meaning of the code?
100
Tally Sheet
What is a listing of all the responses from your research?
200
Qualitative Research
What is type of research that usually involves a small population sample and is in-depth?
200
Bivariate table
What is the table that shows the relationship between two variables such as the relationship between happiness and religion?
200
Independent Variable
What is the variable that is assumed to generate the cause of the change in another variable?
200
Data Matrix
What is two-dimensional table used to organize and retrieve raw data?
200
Elaboration
What is adding a control variable to a bivariate relationship which means we are elaborating (expanding upon) the original relationship?
300
Quantitative Research
What is the type of research that involves a large to very large sample population and is evaluated by percentages and statistics?
300
Frequency
What is the most often reported one-variable summary?
300
Nominal Variable
What is a type of variable that classifies object or elements into only one class or category at a time such as color?
300
Tri-variate Table
What is a three-variable table where the two variables can be examined using a control variable.
300
Explanation
What is a bivariate relationship is explained away when a control variable is added.
400
Raw (unprocessed) Data
What is the listing of the value of every variable in every case?
400
Code
What is the number assigned to a variable to be used in analysis?
400
Ordinal variable
What is the type of variable that is defined by a set of categories - each one either greater than or less than the other category, such as agree or disagree?
400
Sampling Error
What is the difference between a sample statistic and the corresponding population parameter - for example, the difference between the percentage of females in a research sample and the percentage of females in the total population of the US?
400
Regression Analysis
What is a method of predicting the value of a dependent variable using at least one "predictor variable"
500
Percentages
What is the frequency per 100, obtained by counting the number of cases in one category of a variable, dividing by the total number of cases for all categories, and multiplying the quotient by 100?
500
Marginal
What is the marginal frequency distribution? Usually the last two columns containing the number (N) in the population sample and the percentage of questioned in each category.
500
Control Variable
What is the variable that is held constant, measured in all categories, and fits into all cases - such as gender or age?
500
Statistical Inference
What is the process of drawing conclusions about a population using data from a sample of that population?
500
Statistical Significance
What is a very good bet there is a relationship between one variable and another variable.