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Frequencies: Chapter overview

Frequencies: Chapter overview - jamovi Tutorial

From the course: Introduction to jamovi

Frequencies: Chapter overview

- [Instructor] In this section on analyzing frequencies in Jamovi, we get a new way to deal with data. Specifically we are now dealing with counting, as opposed to measuring. Now measuring means when you say how long does it take to do something, or what's the average score here. Counting is like counting the number of rocks. Where you're able to enumerate the cases and put the frequencies in as your data, and this requires a different approach. In Jamovi we have several options for analyzing frequencies. The first and simplest is what's called the binomial test. Binomial means two names, and it's for when you have two categories of outcomes, like flipping a coin and getting the number of heads and the number of tales. If you have more than two outcomes, say for instance you have baskets of several different kinds of mushrooms, you can use the chi-squared goodness-of-fit test to see how things are distributed across those multiple categories. If you want to look at two categories at…

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