In this video I explain the strengths and limitations of the 3 measures of central tendency: the mean, the median, and the mode. This is part of a key theme of statistics, which is the importance of the choices researchers … Read More
Scales of Measurement or Types of Data
In this video I describe the 4 scales of measurement proposed by Stanley Smith Stevens, which have become the standard way of defining types of data. These include nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. I discuss the defining features of each, … Read More