Transcription of Chapter 8 Describing Data: Measures of Central …
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100 Part 2 / Basic Tools of Research: Sampling, Measurement, Distributions, and Descriptive Statistics Chapter 8. Describing Data: Measures of Central tendency and Dispersion I. n the previous Chapter we discussed measurement and the various levels at which we can use measurement to describe the extent to which an individual observation possesses a particular theoretical construct. Such a description is referred to as a datum. An example of a datum could be how many conversations a person initiates in a given day, or how many minutes per day a person spends watching television, or how many column inches of coverage are devoted to labor issues in The Wall Street Journal.
100 Part 2 / Basic Tools of Research: Sampling, Measurement, Distributions, and Descriptive Statistics Chapter 8 Describing Data: Measures of Central Tendency …
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