Week 4: Descriptive statistics
Key concepts
- Describe distribution (frequency, percentiles) (Meier et al., 2014)
- Describe central tendency (mean, weighted mean, median, mode) (Meier et al., 2014)
- Describe dispersion (standard deviation, skewness) (Meier et al., 2014)
- Statistical graphs and data visualization (Kirk, 2019; Kirk, 2019)
Before class
Required readings
- Meier, K. J., Brudney, J. L., & Bohte, J. (2014). Frequency Distributions. In Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration.
- Meier, K. J., Brudney, J. L., & Bohte, J. (2014). Measures of Central Tendency. In Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration.
- Meier, K. J., Brudney, J. L., & Bohte, J. (2014). Measures of Dispersion. In Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration.
- Kirk, A. (2019). The Visualisation Design Process. In Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (2nd edition, pp. 31–58). SAGE Publications Ltd.
- Kirk, A. (2019). Working With Data. In Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (2nd edition, pp. 95–117). SAGE Publications Ltd.
In class
- Lecture on key concepts and frameworks (1.5h)
- In class practice (1h):
- Paper practice
- In-class practice
- Catch up on major assignments:
- Qualitative group paper (15min)
- Quantitative test (15min)