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Descriptive statistics and Table 1
Choosing the right summary for each measurement level.
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Enrol to open the slides and download the data.
What this module covers
choosing the right summary for each measurement level; Frequencies, Descriptives, Explore and Crosstabs, and which to reach for when; mean and SD vs median and IQR, and the rule for choosing; skewness and kurtosis read properly; confidence intervals around a descriptive estimate; building the publication Table 1 for a study sample.
By the end of it
- Choosing the right summary for each measurement level
- Frequencies, Descriptives, Explore and Crosstabs, and which to reach for when
- Mean and SD vs median and IQR, and the rule for choosing
- Skewness and kurtosis read properly
- Confidence intervals around a descriptive estimate
- Building the publication Table 1 for a study sample
The dataset
Antenatal care and birth outcome — Sigma teaching dataset
A teaching dataset of 300 cases, generated from a fixed seed so every figure in the module reproduces exactly.
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