What is Data?
Published: Jun 13th, 2013
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Data are pieces of information about individuals organized into variables. By an individual, we mean a particular person or object. By a variable, we mean a particular characteristic of the individual.
Published: Jun 13th, 2013
View Lecture Slides with Transcript – What is Data? Video (2:50) This document is linked from What is Data?
Published: Jun 12th, 2013
What do we really mean by data? Individuals, Observations, or Cases Independent Observations Variables Various Uses of the Term INDEPENDENT in Statistics CO-1: Describe the roles biostatistics serves in the discipline […]
Published: Aug 2nd, 2012
Required Activity: This activity asks you to save, open, and view a dataset then classify the variable in the dataset.
Published: Jul 31st, 2012
From the online version of Little Handbook of Statistical Practice, this reading contains a discussion about where data come from and some problems to avoid when creating datasets.
Published: Jul 30th, 2012
The following video adapted from material available at Johns Hopkins – Introduction to Biostatistics provides an overview of the steps in a research project and provides some examples of the roles biostatistics […]
Published: Jul 30th, 2012
The following video, adapted from material available at Johns Hopkins – Introduction to Biostatistics, provides a few examples of statistics in use. View Lecture Slides with Transcript – Statistics Examples Video (3:14) […]
Published: Jul 30th, 2012
CO-1: Describe the roles biostatistics serves in the discipline of public health. Throughout the course, we will add to our understanding of the definitions, concepts, and processes which are introduced here. […]