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Psychological Assessment - A Statistics Refresher

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Scales of Measurement →


Measurement →





Scale →




Continuous Scale
Ratio Scale


Discontinuous Scale



Discontinuous Continuous
Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio
Error
Categorizes & labels variables ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ranks categories in order ✓ ✓ ✓
Has equal intervals/differences ✓ ✓
Has a true or meaningful zero ✓

FOUR LEVELS OF MEASUREMENT
Describing Data
Nominal Scales
Distribution
→ Categorical Scale/Variable
→ Raw Scores


→ Standardized Scores


Ordinal Scales

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION

Frequency Distribution


Simple/Ungrouped FQ


Grouped FQ




Interval Scales

, Upper Limits MEASURES OF VARIABLITY
Lower Limits
Measure of Variability
Graph

Histogram




Abscissa (X-axis)


Ordinate (Y-axis)


Bar Graph Range


→ outlier



Frequency Polygon
Interquartile & Semi-quartile Ranges



MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY → Quartile
Measures of Central Tendency
→ Quarters


Mean
→ median/midpoint
→ quarter-points.


Median








Mode


Interquartile Range


Semi-interquartile Range

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