5.6.1 What does longitudinal data look like?.5.5.2 Activity 5.4: Research Planning with Gantt Charts: Design an RTC example.5.5.1 Pre-registration: committing to your research plan.5.3.3 Activity 5.2: Dependent and independent variables.5.3.2 What influences what? Dependent vs independent variables.5.3.1 Activity 5.1 Examples of Experiments in Criminology.

4.9 Recoding some more: Transforming your variables to fit with your concepts.

4.8.2 Activity 4.6: Testing your questions: Cronbach’s alpha.

4.8.1 Activity 4.5: Calculating a summative score.

4.7.1 Multi-item scales for categorical constructs.

4.7 Composite variables created from categorical variables.

4.6.3 Activity 4.4: Twitter data revisited.

4.6.2 Activity 4.3: Computing a z-score in Excel.

4.6.1 Measuring constructs with composite variables.

4.5 The importance of conceptualisation.

4.4.1 Activity 4.2: Conceptualise ‘hate speech’.

4.2.1 Activity 4.1: Sample statistisc vs population parameters.

4.2 Population parameters versus sample statistics.

3.4.2 Correlation does not mean causation.

3.4.1 Activity 3.7: Does age at first arrest correlate with total number of arrests?.

3.3.2 Activity 3.6: Adding a column for median.

3.2.5 Activity 3.4: Visualising the relationship - Stacked bar charts, and conditional formatting.

3.2.4 Decimal places: A note on formatting cells.

3.2.3 Activity 3.3: Calculating row vs column percentages.

3.2.2 Row percentage, column percentage, or total percentage.

2.5.1 Activity 2.8: Standard Deviation in Excel.

2.4.7 Activity 2.7: Calculate quartiles.

2.4.5 Activity 2.6: Histograms in Excel.

2.4.2 Activity 2.5: Mean and median in Excel.

2.3.6 Activity 2.4: Bar charts in Excel.

2.3.5 Visualising a frequency table with bar charts.

2.3.4 Activity 2.3: Looking at frequency.

2.3.3 Creating a frequency table in Excel.

2.2.1 The importance of level of measurement.

1.12.1 Activity 7: Abstract-ing the unit of analysis.

1.11.2 Activity 6: Levels of measurement pt. 2.

1.11.1 Activity 5: Levels of measurement pt. 1.

1.8.1 Activity 4: Thinking about what our data tells us.

1.7.1 Activity 3: Building your own data.

1.4.1 Activity 2: Create a folder for this module.

1.4 Setting up your working environment.

1.3.1 Activity 1: Posting on the discussion board.

1.3 Asking a question on the discussion board.

1.2 Familiarising yourself with the course.

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