Information from Data

The Capable Manager -- Book 12

The Open University

Publisher: The Open University, 1995

ISBN: 0-7492-4923-4

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• Session 1 Analysing Data
• Introduction
• 1.1 Tabulation
• Comparing alternatives
• Systematic data recording
• Method 1
• Method 2
• Method 3
• Analysing survey data
• Discrete and continuous data
• Cumulative frequency distribution
• 1.2 Aggregation
• 1.3 Averaging
• The arithmetic mean
• The mode
• The median
• Review of averages
• Averaging from frequency distributions
• 1.4 Measures of Spread
• Range
• Standard deviation
• 1.5 PC Activities
• Summary and objectives
• Session 2 Graphs and Charts
• Introduction
• 2.1 Bar Charts
• The component, or stacked, bar chart
• 2.2 Line Diagrams
• Strata charts
• 2.3 Pie Charts
• 2.4 Scatter Diagrams
• 2.5 PC Activities
• Summary and objectives
• Session 3 Analysing Relationship Between Data
• Introduction
• 3.1 Correlation
• 3.2 Regression Analysis
• 3.3 PC Activities
• Summary and objectives
• Session 4 Handling and Using Information
• Introduction
• 4.1 How to Manage the Processing of Data
• Information security
• Data into information
• 4.2 Using Quantitative Information in Reports
• Summary and objectives
• Appendix 1 Dealing With Numbers and Indices
• A1.1 Numbers
• Number representation
• Operations with numbers
• Rounding and truncating
• Fractions
• Basic algebra
• A1.2 Indices
• Numbers and powers
• Exponential form
• Appendix 2 Statistical Formulae
• A2.1 Mean
• A2.2 Mode
• A2.3 Median
• A2.4 Range
• A2.5 Inter-quartile range
• A2.6 Standard deviation
• A2.7 Correlation coefficient
• A2.8 Linear regression