DATASETS Revealed – Statistical Research (2-2)

Statistical research requires data. A dataset is a compilation of all of the data collected in a particular study. Statistics is the process of making sense of data. The word DATA is plural for a single DATUM. And data must be organized if we are to use it for analysis. Cases (subjects, participants, elements) go into rows with an identifier for each individual. Variables are arranged in columns with headers listing the variable name. A Data Point is the data from an individual element (cell) Chapters 0:00 What is a dataset? 1:22 Dog Toys dataset revealed ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ This video is part of a series for an introductory statistics course. It supports an academic course QBA 237 Basic Business Statistics at Missouri State University, College of Business, Department of Information Technology and Cybersecurity. Posted beginning in August 2022. This series was designed, written, produced, recorded, edited, and posted by Dr. Todd Daniel, a Ph.D. statistician and researcher with extensive experience in academic statistical research and statistics instruction. Dr. Daniel directed a research institute for many years before doing private consulting for Research by Design, LLC. He remains active in teaching and research. ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Statistics Instructors: you are free to link to this video and the playlist for your seated or online statistics course or for other educational purposes. Edited in Camtasia 2022 Visual and audio content from DigitalJuice.com Music: Digital Juice Royalty Free Music ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Link to a Google Drive folder with any files that I use in the videos. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n9aCsq5j4dQ6m_sv62ohDI69aol3rW6Q?usp=sharing To download, hover your cursor over the file icon and a blue download icon will appear. You do not need to request access to a file.