Coding - -the process of assigning a numerical score or other character symbol to previously edited data.
-Codes - -rules for interpreting, classifying, and recording data in the coding process; also, the actual numerical or other character symbols assigned to raw data.
-Dummy coding - -Numer...
Chapter 14 - Big Data Analysis
Questions and Answers Grade A+ 2023
Coding - -the process of assigning a numerical score or other character symbol to previously
edited data.
-Codes - -rules for interpreting, classifying, and recording data in the coding process; also, the
actual numerical or other character symbols assigned to raw data.
-Dummy coding - -Numeric "1" or "0" coding where each number represents an alternate
response such as "female" or "male."
-Effects coding - -An alternative to dummy cod- ing using the values of -1 and +1 to represent
two categories of responses.
-Class coding - -Coding that assigns numbers to categories in an arbitrary way merely as a means
of identifying some characteristic.
-Descriptive analysis - -the elementary transformation of raw data in a way that describes the
basic characteristics such as central tendency, distribution, and variability
-Histogram - -A graphical way of showing a frequency distribution in which the height of a bar
corresponds to the observed frequency of the category.
-Tabulation - -the orderly arrangement of data in a table or other summary format showing the
number of responses to each response category; tallying.
-Frequency table - -A table showing the different ways respondents answered a question
-Cross-tabulation - -the appropriate technique for addressing research questions involving
relationships among multiple less-than interval variables; results in a combined frequency table
displaying one variable in rows and another in columns
-Contingency table - -A data matrix that displays the frequency of some combina- tion of
possible responses to multiple variables; cross-tabulation results.
-Statistical base - -the number of respondents or observations (in a row or column) used as a
basis for computing percentages.
-Elaboration analysis - -An analysis of the basic cross- tabulation for each level of a variable not
previously considered, such as subgroups of the sample.
-Moderator variable - -A third variable that changes the nature of a relationship between the
original independent and dependent variables.
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