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Comparisons with Descriptive Data

In: Better Business Decisions from Data

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  • Peter Kenny

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Chapter 6 explained that descriptive data can be rendered numerical by expressing the numbers of items in various categories as proportions—thus enabling further analysis to be carried out on the data. In this chapter, a single proportion will be compared with a population, and two sample proportions will be compared. If the data is ordinal—that is to say, it can be listed in logical order—then ranking tests, which will be introduced, can be applied to achieve comparisons between pairs of ranks.

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  • Peter Kenny, 2014. "Comparisons with Descriptive Data," Springer Books, in: Better Business Decisions from Data, chapter 0, pages 103-113, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4842-0184-8_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4842-0184-8_11
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