3. pertains to collecting, organizing, presenting,
analyzing, and interpreting data to assist in
making more effective decisions.
STATISTICS
STATISTICS
"Data are useless if they do
not talk and are not
analyzed."
4. Roles of Statistics
Roles of Statistics
Establishes the level of reliability
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2
2
Guides the researcher in drawing
out conclusions.
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Has the basis for inferences
Makes objective, definite, and
precise description of data.
11. MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY
The arithmetic
average of all
the scores.
The middle
value of rank
ordered data.
The number that
appears most
frequently.
12. MEASURES OF DISPERSION OR VARIABILITY
The extent to which the
scores differ from each
other or how
spread out the scores
are.
Convey information
regarding the
amount of variability
present in a set of
data.