8210 Dis. 1 Week3

8210 Week 3

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Frankfort-Nachmias, C., Leon-Guerrero, A., & Davis, G. (2020). Social statistics for a diverse society (9th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

· Chapter 3, “Measures of Central Tendency” (pp. 75-111)

· Chapter 4, “Measures of Variability” (pp. 113-150)

Wagner, III, W. E. (2020). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science statistics (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

1. Chapter 4, “Organization and Presentation of Information”

2. Chapter 11, “Editing Output”

Datasets

Your instructor will post the datasets for the course in the Doc Sharing section

Announcement. Your instructor may also recommend using a different dataset from the ones provided here.

Required Media

Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2016d). Descriptive statistics [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

 

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 7 minutes.

 

In this media program, Dr. Matt Jones demonstrates the procedures used for central tendency and variability using SPSS software. Focus on how this demonstration might support your analysis in this week’s Assignment.

 

Optional Resources

Wheelan, C. (2013). Naked statistics: Stripping the dread from data. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.

Skill Builders:

· Measures of Central Tendency for Continuous Variables

· Standard Deviation as a Measure of Variability for Continuous Variables

· Measures of Central Tendency and Variability for Categorical Variables

To access these Skill Builders, navigate back to your Blackboard Course Home page, and locate “Skill Builders” in the left navigation pane. From there, click on the relevant Skill Builder link for this week