Statistics

Definition
Make
Interpret decision
Analyze
Present/
Collect organize
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A variable is a characteristic or
attributes that can be assumed to be
different. Otherwise it is called constant.
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Variable

Quantitative Qualitative

Continuous Discrete Nominal Ordinal

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Classify each variable as qualitative or

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quantitative.

a. Years in service
b.Academic Performance
c. Mother Occupation.
d.Sibling Position.
e. Number of siblings.
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Classify each variable as discrete or continuous.

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a. Land area
b.Weights of new born baby
c. Registered marriages
d.Household size
e. Number of overseas Filipino workers
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Classify each of the variables according to scale of

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measurements.
a. Score of a high grade 10 student in a national achievement
test.
b. Proportion of households with access to safe water supply in
each municipality of Ilocos Region.
c. Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age
in each barangay of Agoo La-Union.
d. Nationality of the tourist in Hundred Island Alaminos City,
Pangasinan.
e. Number of tourist arrivals in Pugad Adventure Pugo La-
Union.
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Functionality of Variables

Independent
Dependent
Confounding
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Identify the independent and dependent variable(s) for each of the studies.
a. The subjects of this study are the customers of the Capitol Resort Hotel

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in Lingayen Pangasinan. The researcher finds that the level of
satisfaction of the customers in the products and services of the hotel is
not significantly different according to their educational attainment.
b. A researcher finds that the level of performance of barangay secretaries
in the exercise of their duties and function as perceived by the punong
barangays in Bayambang Pangasinan is positively correlated to the
number of years of their service.
c. According to the study, the shape of distribution of the microbiological
qualities of the deep well water according to total bacterial count in the
different municipality of Pangasinan is positively skewed.
d. An employee reports that annual average family expenditure of the
respondents is different from each other when they are group according
to their socio economic status.
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Type of Statistics

DESCRIPTIVE INFERENTIAL
• organizing/summarizing/ • This kind of statistics is
presenting, concerned more with
• analyzing generalizing information or
making inference about
• describing data population
The statements below give some information about activities and
events in Region 1. Tell whether descriptive or inferential 11
statistics have been used.
a. The average price per sack of urea from October to December

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is lower than the average price during third quarter (Source:
Philippine Statistics Authority).
b. The annual average family saving in the year 2012 is P50,000
(Source: Family Income and Expenditure Survey).
c. The number of population per square kilometer in the year
2010 is 366 (Source: Family Income and Expenditure Survey).
d. The total number of constructed floor area in square meters
on a 4th Quarter of 2013 is 184,975 (Source: Philippine
Statistics Authority)
e. According to the director of Census-based Population
Projections the average quarterly employment of construction
worker in Ilocos Region is not equal to 1,893.
f. The mathematical proficiency directly influence by the reading
skills.