Specific Outcome
Specific purposes include:
- Determining trends in societal issues such as crime and health.
- Identifying relevant characteristics of target groups such as age, range, gender, socio-economic group, cultural belief and performance.
- Predicting the likelihood of the occurrence of events.
- Considering the attitudes or opinions of people on issues.
- Assessment Criteria On completion of this section you will be able to:
- Situations or issues that can be dealt with through statistical methods are identified correctly. (SO 1, AC 1)
- Variables contributing to a problem situation are identified and addressed in data gathering, e.g. crime is related to time of day and location. (SO 1, AC 2)
- Appropriate and efficient methods are used to collect, record and organise data. (SO 1, AC 3)
- Data samples are of adequate size and are representative of the population. (SO 1, AC 4)
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