2 Descriptive Research Questions
2.1 Introduction and Chapter Overview
This chapter deals with descriptive research questions or descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics is the starting point of all statistical analysis in research no matter what the end goal might be. The key question of descriptive statistics is very often this: What is typical for a variable?
Section 2.2 introduces Stata and SPSS using the COVID-19 data. Here, I also bring up the advice to work commando-style with statistics (more on this in Section 2.9). Then I proceed with the analysis of a data set containing 75 Christmas beers. Section 2.2 elaborates on the topic of what is typical for a variable, which in statistics lingo translates ...
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