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Descriptive statistics - jamovi Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to jamovi
Descriptive statistics
- Perhaps the quickest way to get some insight into your data is to do basic descriptive statistics, like frequencies and means, and standard deviations. Fortunately, that's really easy to do in jamovi. Now, the data set that I have open here is the bugs data set, where we have a number of people and they are rating how much they would like to get rid of bugs that are either high or low disgusting or on high or low frightening. And we have the peoples' Gender, Region and Education. All we need to do is come over here to Exploration, and click Descriptives. Now, I've installed the Scatter modules so these two menus show up here. If you don't have those, that's not a problem, just hit Descriptives, and then we get to pick the variables we want and jamovi will either give us means and so on, or frequencies. Now, I find it useful to start with the predictor variables, the ones that you're going to use to predict the outcomes. And in this case, that's going to be these three categorical…
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