Organising quantitative data

About this book

Uses psychology research questions to explore research methods for the social sciences. Focuses on effective ways to understand and organize data with descriptive statistics, using the example of data collected from studies of young music students. Helps viewers sort through the basic data interpretation concepts of measures of central tendency, levels of measurement, measures of dispersion, and graphs. Covers a wide range of organization principles, including mode, median, and mean, discrete and continuous data, nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio data, standard deviation, and normal distribution.