Tier 1
Designed for use by the general public but can be used by all key stakeholder groups.
Brief, user-friendly explanations of the main statistical methods used in SG publications.
Information is available for the following methods:
- Describing Numerical Data: basic statistical terms
- Statistical Significance: what does it really mean?
- Sampling: obtaining the best estimate
- Confidence Intervals: how good are our estimates?
- Imputation: dealing with the problem of missing data
- Social Survey Design: important factors to consider
- Statistical Disclosure Control: protecting sensitive information
- Harmonisation: standardising survey questions and outputs
- Correlation and Regression: predicting the unknown
- Statistical Modelling: understanding and forecasting by numbers
- Time Series: monitoring underlying change over time
- Depreciation: the loss of value over time
- Index Numbers: simple comparisons against a base-line
- Factor Analysis: a summary
- Household Projections for Scotland: a summary