PLAN105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Covariate, Research Question

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Planning
• Course: PLAN105
• Professor: Clarence Woudsma

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Dependent variables: also known as outcome variables or response variables, outcome = obesity, e. g. , bmi. Independent variables: also known as explanatory variables or covariates or predictive variable, explain = physical activity, e. g, total number of hours of exercise in a week. Know your research: make sure you know exactly, research goal(s, research question(s, supported by references from the literature, how do the goals/questions relate to the research, cite the literature they should relate to planning issues. Methods: study region, data - year, source: where can the data be acquired, unit of analysis - map the variable to be studied, analysis, geographic pattern and clustering, global and local moran"s i. Identify associations: simple and multiple spatial regression describe clearly the dependent and independent variables. P-value<=0. 05: permutations, e. g. , 999, 9999, example: there were large clusters of neighbourhoods with significantly (5% level) high-high diabetes rates in the west ends of the city.