Child Development 133 Research Methods in Human Development
Sections 01 & 05 Hembree Fall, 2012
Descriptive Statistics
I. Describing and summarizing data (descriptive statistics)
A. Introduction What are statistics?
A. Introduction
What are statistics?
Descriptive vs. Inferential statistics
B. Pictorial representations
frequency distributions
frequency histograms/bar graphs
frequency polygons
C. Central tendency
· mean
· median
· mode
Discussion
D. Variance (review) and standard deviation E. The normal curve and z scores
D. Variance (review) and standard deviation
E. The normal curve and z scores
II. ACTIVITY - SURVEY DATA
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Updated: August, 2012