Nominal data is the simplest form of data in which data falls into unordered Types of Data to represent non-numeric categories Nominal data can have two or more categories Where there are only two categories variable(or indicator) is generally referred to as dichotomous or binary Types of data Nominal scales
Lecture 5 a distribution is a collection of scores order from lowest to highest value on the horizontal (X)axis, and in terms of T-Test frequency on the vertical (Y) axis. A ormal distribution sometimes referred to as a bell curve has a distribution that forms the shape of a bell. All you need to know to plot the normal distribution is the mean and standard deviation of the data This lecture covers
In many situations in demography and the ocial sciences however we have a dependent variable, Y, that is dichotomous Lecture 10 er or not a voman has had a second birth whether the econd birth is a male or a female baby Logistic Regression contraceptive method, whether or not a person has migrated in the last 5 years, whether
Individuals are the objects described by a set of data. Individuals may be people, but they may also be animals Relationship or things Between Variables A variable is any characteristic of an individual. a variable can take different values for different ndividuals The 1997 survey data set, for example, includes data about a sample of women The individuals described are the women
