Lesson 1. Descriptive Statistics 1

3 Fevereiro 2026, 09:30 • Pedro Nogueira Serrasqueiro

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Introduction. Syllabus, Assessment, Bibliography. Introduction to R software (interpretation of outputs). Descriptive statistics: observed variables. Types of variables: qualitative (nominal and ordinal); quantitative (discrete and continuous). Data as variable observations. Influence of variable type on graphical representations, table construction, and calculation of descriptive statistics measures.