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Digging Deeper with Statistics
LaFleur discusses various types of statistics, including how to calculate and interpret them. She also reviews the differences between dichotomous data, ordinal data and continuous data, and what statisics are appropriate for each kind.
Tags: statistics; math; calculations; gini coefficient; data analysis
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Statistics For the Newsroom
LaFleur provides an explanation of the different types of data, including categorical and continuous. The idea of mixing these types is explored, and many examples of newspapers using statistics to find and flesh out stories are included.
Tags: Gini coefficient; categorical data; dichotomous data; ordinal data; continuous data