The Chapter 5 Worksheet was mostly about finding results while controlling for other variables. Controlling for other variables is important because it prevents spurious results. Two variables might seem correlated at first, but controlling for another related variable can show whether or not the results are important. A common example is the positive correlation between […]
Help Received: None Worksheet 4 has been about the crosstabs function. It compares two variables in a table and can show the counts and percentages. The crosstabs function looks useful for testing hypotheses. There is one dependent variable and one independent variable in each table, but multiple crosstabs can be done at a time.
Nicholas Carpenter British Literature – Henry V Short Assignment, 14 Feb Help Received: Shapiro Handout; Henry V Henry V was apparently a new take on an old play. Several people and circumstances influenced Shakespeare in the writing of this play. As the handout notes, Lancelot Andrewes’s sermon and the war in Ireland affected how Shakespeare […]
I found worksheet 3 to be more difficult than the previous worksheets. It was mostly about recoding the data in a certain way. I got one of the questions wrong by not accounting for the Missing: System data.