Statistical Methods for Psychology Flashcards
1
Q
The two sub-categories of categorical variables and their meaning:
A
Regular Categorical/ Nomial:
- No particular order to the contents ex: colours, no order to put them in
Ordinal/ Ranked
- Categories that have been ordered
ex: ranks of income classes (in bins)
2
Q
Name of the table that summarizes data for two categorical data variables?
A
Contingency Tables
3
Q
What does a segmented barplot display?
A
Two categorical variables
4
Q
What do hollow histograms display?
A
two histograms layered, but both hollowed out so we can see all the data from both histograms
5
Q
What do scatterplots display?
A
Two categorical variables
6
Q
What do barplots display?
A
A single categorical variable
7
Q
What are the two sub-types of numerical variables?
A
Continuous and discrete
