Ask 100 randomly chosen people the following 6 QUESTIONS… PROJECT #1 Ask 100 randomly chosen people the following 6 QUESTIONS… #1 A Quantitative question… #2 A Quantitative question directly relate or, associated to your question #1 #3 A Quantitative question NOT related or associated to questions #1 or #2… #4 A Categorical question… #5 A Yes or No question… #6 An Opinion question related or associated to questions #1 and #2… (Only ask this question to 20 of the 100 people sample)
Statistics Vocabulary A QUANTITATIVE VARIABLE takes numerical values for which it make sense to do arithmetic operations like adding and averaging. A CATEGORICAL VARIABLE records which of several groups or category an individual belongs to.
Statistics Vocabulary INDIVIDUALS – the objects described by a set of data. A VARIABLE is any characteristic of an individual. The DISTRIBUTION of a variable tells us what values the variable takes and how often it takes these values. Ex. Histograms.