WCOB 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography, Pie Chart, Qualitative Property
5 Sep 2016
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Quantitative data data that assumes meaningful numeric value. We can take an average & measure standard deviation. Qualitative data data that does not have meaningful numeric value. can count and put the data in categories, but can not take an average of qualita tive data. Proportion a part / amount of a category in relation to the whole used most frequently with qualitative data relative frequency can be proportion. ; evaluate instructor on scale of 1-10 in a survey. Categorized & ranked w. respect to some characteristic/ trait. Difference btw categories= meaningful (addition & subtraction= meaningful as well) Categorized & ranked w. respect to some characteristics/ traits. 0 means absence of (meaningful rations= obtained) ; weight, time, distance, scales, profits, inventory level. A continuous variable can assume on infinite number of values within some inter- Real frequency distribution considered in comparison to something else. Bar chart depicts each category as a series of bars.
