SOC222H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nonprobability Sampling, Dependent And Independent Variables, Spurious Relationship
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Soc222 lecture 1 thursday, january 7, 2016. Staisics refers to a set of procedures used by social scienists to organize, summarize & communicate informaion: and that info must be turned into numbers to be subject to a staisical analysis. Levels of measurement for operaionalizing the atributes of a variable/indicator: nominal measure. Variables with atributes that are merely diferent from each other and have no order. Yes / no (can be more than 2 categories: ordinal measure. Variables with atributes that can be rank ordered along some dimension. Never, occasionally, regularly, frequently, all the ime, or 0-10, 11-20, etc: interval measure. Variables with atributes that can be rank ordered with equal distances, but no true 0. Iq 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130 / temperature in c or f: raio measure. Has the qualiies of an interval measure with a true 0 point. Soc222 lecture 2 thursday, january 11, 2016.
