[clug-talk] Statistics for dumbies

[Jesse Kline]

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Jesse

> On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 23:07 -0600, Jesse Kline wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-01-10 at 19:06 -0700, Johnny Stork wrote:
> > > Spreadsheets are a good starting point since you can do your organizing 
> > > and data cleaning in a familiar interface. Once you collect, clean and 
> > > organize (grouping etc) your daya you can then export as CSV to import 
> > > into any stats package, or, you can do some basic stats in Excel (Open 
> > > Office Calc). I am also guessing you are only looking at doing some 
> > > descriptive stats (counts, means, variance, sd etc) and so these are 
> > > easoly done in Excel. You can also do many different basic means tests 
> > > (is this mean/average statistically larger than the other mean), in 
> > > Excel (T-Tests)
> > 
> > In regards to working with OpenOffice.org Calc, I am unsure about how I
> > would work with non-numerical values. For example, if I have one column
> > that records User ID's and I want to categorize the number/percentage of
> > users in various categories [ie. one-time posters (1 post), light
> > posters (2-5 posts), all the way to heavy posters (80+ posts)] and then
> > correlate this data with another column that records ideology of the
> > posts, how would I go about doing this?
> > 
> > Jesse
> > 
> > 
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