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Computing variables - jamovi Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to jamovi
Computing variables
- [Instructor] One of the most common transformations on data is averaging several variables that we can get a, for instance, a scale score. It's also a great way of of helping balance out the error variance of different scores and really get you more generalizable information. This is easy to do in jamovi. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take this data set that has ID and it has these three rating scale questions. And they're all on a one to five scale and they ask people how much they liked different elements of, for instance, your website. And I'm going to click on each of these first. We'll go to Like Website and we have a little bit of a descriptive text and it's a continuous or quantitative variable that's on just a one to five. If we go to Like Price you see it's ordinal and even though it's ordinal you get to specify level. Now it's just a one to five, that's easy to do. And then Like Product, you see here in the data it has text, it says Neither, Strongly Disagree, and…
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