Exploratory and Descriptive Statistics

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Julie Scott Jones - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
John Goldring - Manchester Metropolitan University

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The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit

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Evaluation | Quantitative/Statistical Research | Research Methods

March 2022 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Nervous about statistics? This guide offers a clear, straight to the point break down of exploratory and descriptive statistics and its potential. Anchored by lots of examples and exercises to enhance your learning, it offers gudience on how to:

Identify and access different types of variables and data
Select the best method for measuring your chosen variables and data
Use data viusalization techniques to tell stories with your data
Appropriately clean and manage your data

Part of The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit, this book will give you the know-how and confidence needed to succeed on your quantitative research journey.

Introducing Descriptive and Exploratory Statistics

Finding Data to Describe

Measure everything – Learn something – Answer nothing: An exploration into variables and types of Measurement

I am not a number, I am a categorical variable

I like being average, I am an interval variable

Visualising Our Data

The story waiting to be told

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This is a very good reading resource for modules with research and literature review aspects.

Mrs Josephine D Morris

Interdiscipline, Winchester University

August 3, 2022

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Julie Scott Jones

Professor Julie Scott Jones is a professor of sociology and the former Head of the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Julie has had a career long interest in social science research methods, editing seven books on the subject, including volumes on applied ethics. She was the founder and original Director of the Manchester Metropolitan University Q-Step Centre, which received £1.15 million in funding from the Nuffield Foundation-ESRC-HEFCE. Q-Step was an ambitious programme to change the training of quantitative methods and data literacy in social science students. She has co-authored... More About Author

John Goldring

Dr John E. Goldring is the Co-Director of the Q-Step Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University, one of 15 centres across the UK to receive funding to promote the development of quantitative methods teaching across the HE sector. Joining Manchester Metropolitan University in 2004, his initial research and teaching focus was on men, masculinity and health. He started teaching statistical analysis in 2012 where he developed a narrative approach to working with numbers based on a Freirean principles of raising critical consciousness and challenging social injustice. Teaching on research methods units at both undergraduate and postgraduate... More About Author

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