Quantitative

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What is skewness?
Deviation from symmetry
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What is modality?
The number of major peaks in a distribution
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Unimodal
One singular peak
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Bimodal
Number of major peaks
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What is kurtosis
peakedness of a distribution (also reflected by variance)
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What is the area under a probability density curve?
Must be equal to 1.
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What is the standard normal distribution?
Mean = 0, SD = 1
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What is a Z-score
Observation - mean / SD
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How can normality be assessed
1. by assessing skewness and kurtosis 2. by using specific statistical tests i.e. Shapiro-Wilk or Kolmolgorov-Smirnov Test
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