Quantitative Data Analysis: a topic agenda

Based on Bryman and Bell (2011), I provide the following agenda for examining the topic of Quantitative Data Analysis:

1. Variable types
• Interval
• Ratio
• Dichotomous
2. Univariate analysis
• Frequency tables
• Charts, e.g. bar charts
• Measures of central tendency and dispersion
3. Bivariate analysis
• Correlation and dependence
• Causality
• Contingency tables
• Spurious relationships and intervening variables
• The chi-square test
4. Conducting quantitative data analysis - a checklist (re: pg. 356 of Bryman and Bell (2011).)

An article on illustration of the techniques (statistics): on homelessness

Reference
Bryman, A. and Bell, E. (2011) "Chapter 14: Quantitative data analysis", Business Research Methods, Oxford University Press