02 October 2016 02 Oct 2016

Getting to grips with Statistics: Understanding variables

What do we mean by ‘Statistics’? With an upper-case ‘S’, Statistics is the discipline of systematically analysing data that either consist of numbers or can be represented by numbers Numerical data are collected in quantitative research studies where the aim is to investigate a research question involving counting or measuring With a lower-case ‘s’, ‘statistics’ are quantities calculated from data values that tell you something about the data