Sampling Logic

11 important questions on Sampling Logic

What is the difference between a histogram and a bar chart?

With a bar chart the bars don't make contact.
Histogram when the measurement level is interval or ratio
Bar chart when the measurement level is dichotomy, nominal, ordinal

What does a frequency table consist?

  • Title
  • Variables
  • values
  • units
  • total
  • frequencies
  • precentages

Where are the units and variables stand in a datamatrix?

Units in the rows
Variables in the columns
Variables Have Names and Labels
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How does a Pie chart looks like and what are the advantages and disadvantages?

The categories are shown as a slice of a pie. Each slice is a percentage.

Advantage: You can see immediately that a X percentage of the observation comes from ..... That is harder to see in a bar chart.

Disadvantage: The exact number is not easily retreat from a pie chart

When do you use a bar chart in stead of a pie chart?

When there is a high number of categories you use a bar chart

What is a histogram?

Has similarities to a bar chart becease it has bars to show frequenties of the possible values of a value.
The big difference is that the bars in the histogram touch each other. That means that there is an underlying scale.
It is important that the interval is alway’s the same but does not have to start at zero.

How do you find the mode and with what measurement level do you use the mode?

Value that occurs most frequently

Often used if a variable is measured on a nominal or ordinal level

When should you use the mean, mode or median?

When it is nominal it is impossible to do median and mean. Than mode is the only option.

When it is quantitative, you can calculate the mean and median

What is the interquartile range?

Is Q3 - Q1.
This gives an indication about how the data is spread.

What is the advantage of Variance or standard deviation in comparison to a box-plot?

Takes into account all the values of a variable

What are the characterstics of a normal curve?

  • Symmetric
  • single peak
  • bell shaped
  • completely described by the mean and deviation
  • mean & median are on the same point in the middle

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