Exploratory and Descriptive Statistics

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The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit

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Evaluation | Quantitative Methods | Research Methods | Statistics - General Interest

May 2022 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Nervous about statistics? This guide offers a clear, straight to the point break down of exploratory and descriptive statistics and its potential. Anchored by lots of examples and exercises to enhance your learning, it offers gudience on how to:

Identify and access different types of variables and data
Select the best method for measuring your chosen variables and data
Use data viusalization techniques to tell stories with your data
Appropriately clean and manage your data

Part of The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit, this book will give you the know-how and confidence needed to succeed on your quantitative research journey.

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Introducing Descriptive and Exploratory Statistics

Finding Data to Describe

Measure everything – Learn something – Answer nothing: An exploration into variables and types of Measurement

I am not a number, I am a categorical variable

I like being average, I am an interval variable

Visualising Our Data

The story waiting to be told

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This is a very good reading resource for modules with research and literature review aspects.

Mrs Josephine D Morris

Interdiscipline, Winchester University

August 3, 2022

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