{"id":11256,"date":"2024-02-11T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T20:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/descriptive-statistics-in-peer-reviewed-literature-measures-of-central-tendency-and-measures-of-variability-with-reference-page\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T20:48:22","slug":"descriptive-statistics-in-peer-reviewed-literature-measures-of-central-tendency-and-measures-of-variability-with-reference-page","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/descriptive-statistics-in-peer-reviewed-literature-measures-of-central-tendency-and-measures-of-variability-with-reference-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Descriptive Statistics in Peer-Reviewed Literature (Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability)  with reference page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The purpose of this activity is to explore use of statistics in peer-reviewed social work research. For Activity #1, you should do each of the following to obtain credit for this assignment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1. Go to Google Scholar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">2. Select a social work-related research topic that also intersects with issues of Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">3. Identify a peer-reviewed journal article that is empirical (quantitative) and contains statistical analyses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">4. Skim the analysis section and review how descriptive statistics are used in the analysis. Specifically, you should be looking for analysis involving measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode)<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">and<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>measures of variability (range, standard deviation, and variance). Note 1: The mode may not be present, but the mean and the median are typically described. Note 2: The range or variance, may not be present, but the standard deviation is typically described.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">5. Copy\/paste the portion of the analysis involving the measures of central tendency and measures of variability into a Word document. Please be sure to place this verbatim information into quotation marks and provide an APA-style in-text citation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">6. Write 1-2 sentences (in your own words) about what these results mean for the study, social work, or ADEI. Focus only on the measures of central tendency and measures of variability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">7. Provide an APA-style reference for the paper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">8. Attach a pdf copy of your article to your submission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this activity is to explore use of statistics in peer-reviewed social work research. For Activity #1, you should do each of the following to obtain credit for this assignment: 1. Go to Google Scholar. 2. Select a social work-related research topic that also intersects with issues of Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[8],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}