Week 10 - Statistics
Variables and their types;
Date - ordinal due to units not being fixed. Intervals
Shift - ordinal due to units not being fixed. Intervals
Individual - ordinal due to units not being fixed.
Sex - ordinal due to units not being fixed.
Behaviour - ordinal due to units not being fixed.
Moon phases - ordinal due to units not being fixed. Intervals
Time - continuous due to no fixed starting point
Tree height - continuous due to no fixed starting point
Animal height - continuous due to no fixed starting point
Rain - continuous due to no fixed starting point
Wind - continuous due to no fixed starting point
Cloud - continuous due to no fixed starting point
Observer - nominal, labels and names
Tracker - nominal, labels and names
ID - nominal, labels and names
I found this activity quite daunting at first, I have not dealt with statistics since high school, and I was worried about how I would deal with it after such a long time. Once I read the portfolio activity, I was even more scared, seeing all the spreadsheets made me very anxious. However, once I looked through the slides provided by Prof. Nekaris it started making sense and I was getting more comfortable looking through the spreadsheets. This activity has made me see statistics as slightly easier but overall has not changed how I feel about statistics.
Statistics is very complicated in my opinion and it takes a lot of time looking at spreadsheets to understand the data and what category of data it falls into. In my case, I have also found it difficult to understand the different categories of data as they have several different names and the way some of the categories overlapped made it slightly harder to understand. I think ordinal is the most difficult to understand as it covers qualitative data but can include numbers.
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