SOC 481 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Central Tendency, Fits, Univariate
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Monday, october 30, 2017 frequency table is only one table. Deviation is not on a cross tab frequency - how many times a response is given precent - percent out of all the answers valid perfect - is the percent out of the valid answers excluding the missing. Cum %- the sum of the valid percent before it. Nominal level - the numbers are used to assign each case an attribute ordinal level - the attributes have an inherent order ratio level - the value represent a quality of something. What is the mode of a distribution - the most common answer median - the answer with 50 % of cases above it and 50 % below mean - the arithmetic average. For a ratio level variable, what can be used to identify the centre of the distribution- mode median and mean ( you can use all 3 ) ordinal you can use mode and median only mode - nominal.
