Stats #11: Computing Simple Descriptive Statistics
This class will teach you how to recognize different types of data, how to summarize your data, and how to display your data graphically. Please bring a copy of research paper comparing two groups (e.g., new versus standard therapy) for use in class exercises. This class is useful for anyone who needs to summarize or display numerical data. It is also recommended for anyone who needs to interpret simple descriptive statistics. There are no pre-requisites for this class.
In this class, you will learn how to:
- recognize various types of data, identify limitations inherent in certain data types;
- compute percentiles; and
- construct and interpret a box plot;
- characterize central tendency and spread of individual variables.
This class does not qualify for IRB Education Credits (IRBECs).
Contents
- Overview of the STATS web pages
- Consulting services that I provide
- Definition: Qualitative data
- Definition: Categorical data
- Definition: Continuous data
- Definition: Nominal data
- Definition: Ordinal data
- Definition: Interval data
- Definition: Ratio Data
- Definition: Stem and leaf diagram
- Definition: Percentiles
- Definition: Box plot
- Definition: Sample mean
- Definition: Median
- Definition: Mode
- Definition: Range
- Definition: Standard deviation
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