SOC222H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Descriptive Statistics, Exogeny, Interval Ratio
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Office hours: 11:30-1:30 (wed. ) dv3082 room c: unless the sample is randomly selected, inferential statistics cannot be used cannot generalize. The census 2011 data are [not is] of very poor quality. The role of statistics in social research: where theory is an explanation of the relationships between phenomena (healey & prus. 2015:11), usually stated in terms of the relationships e. g. causal relationships -- between variables: will be analyzing secondary data in this course. : a variable is not equivalent to the unit of analysis. For example, a variable is not an individual or a household. person: n. b. : a variable is also not equivalent to a case/respondent. For example, a variable is not a: e. g. : if we measure the gpa"s of students in soc222, the variable would be gpa, the cases would consist of the students in the class, and the unit of analysis would be the individual. Dependent variable (or endogenous variable or outcome variable ).
