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Introductional Data Analysis Unit 3 : Properties of Variables

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Introductional Data Analysis Unit 3 : Properties of Variables

Description

Building on unit 1, a more detailed look at the properties of variable distributions, including shape, central tendancy and spread, and the ways these can be measured and summarised

Objectives

  • be familiar with the main attributes of distributions
  • be able to understand the meaning and interpret appropriate measures of shape, central tendancy and spread for univariate distributions of categorical and continuous variables
  • have been introduced to the key features of a normal distribution
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