IHST 2010 - Week 13 - epi data

What type of variable is continuous with a fixed zero?

Boxplots are useful for examining your distribution of scores and identifying outliers

The measure of central tendency that is calculated by identifying the most frequent score is what?

What percentage of scores fall within the Interquartile range?

Logistics for data collection are simple in practice

What is the underlying model or equation for linear regression analysis?

The ability to produce consistent results means your measure is what?

Using the Global Burden of Disease data for your research is using what type of data?

How is regression different from correlation?

What is the best way to test your data collection approach for a new project?

Linear and Logistic regression are inferential statistics.

What are critical aspects of high quality data collection?

Measuring political party affiliation is an example of what kind of variable?

Mathematical operations can be applied to ordinal variables

Measures of spread include what type of statistical summaries?

A likert scale (from strongly agree to disagree) will produce what kind of variable?

What is a word for defining a construct or factor (i.e. variable) to allow it to be measured?

Measures of central tendency are part of what type of statistics?

When the mean, median and mode are the same, the distribution is likely what?

Causation can be safely inferred from a correlation coefficient