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| Data analysis | application of statistical tests to data to organize, describe, summarize and analyze them to answer a research question or test a hypothesis |
| Measures of central tendency | refers to statistical methods that describe the clustering of teh numerical values in a distribution of data within research |
| Descriptive statistics | consist of the procedures that are used to summarize, organize and describe quantitative data |
| Qualatative | answering the why and how of a dental public health program or research project |
| Correlation | Relationship or assoication between variables that can be measured mathematically |
| Biostatistics | data analysis and interpretation in healthcare research |
| Dispersion | communicates how much variation is present in a group of data |
| Normal distribution | curve in which the majority of subjects will fall under the large part of teh middle with a few low and high outliers; a bell curve |
| Nominal scale of measurement | organizes data into mutually exclusive categories that have no rank order or value. |
| Inferential statistics | data generally presented by describing and summarizing them to make inferences about a population based on data taken from a samle of that population |
| Skewed distribution | description of distribution of asymmetrical scores causing the curve to be distorted or skewed |
| p-value | probability that the findings of a study are due to chance |
