URSI 403--Doing Urban Research -- Lecture Notes 9


VIII. Reporting Results

A.. Interpretting the analysis

  1. What are the possible relationships?
  2. What are the actual relationships?
  3. What are the implications of this?

B. Measures of Confidence

  1. Reliability
  2. Validity
  3. Confidence limits
  4. Significance
  5. Determining significance
  6. Correlation has own significance distribution, called "F", which is a function of correlation coefficient and sample size.
  7. Sensitivity--combined effect of validity & reliability of procedures

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