MMW Lesson 4-7 Terms Review

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an administrative process by which the required data is acquired, validated, stored, protected, and processed, and by which its accessibility, reliability, and timeliness is ensured to satisfy the needs of the data users.

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Data Management

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a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, organization, presentation, analysis and interpretation of data.

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Statistics

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5 methods of gathering data

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Direct (Interview) Method

Indirect (Questionnaire) Method

Registration Method

Observation Method

Experimental Method

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Data collected

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Raw Data

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AKA discrete / categorical variable

categorical without order

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Nominal Variable

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Categorical with order

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Ordinal Variables

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numbers that have equal spacing between them

has no true zero value

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Interval Variable

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has a true zero value

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Ratio Variable

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makes use of words, sentences and paragraphs in presentation.

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Textual Form

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a systematic presentation of data in rows and columns.

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Tabular Form