Week 1

Author

Huanfa Chen

Published

October 1, 2025

Introduction

This week will introduce data types and key metrics for describing and representing data.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this week, you will be able to:

  1. Understand data types for quantitative research.
  2. Describe and represent data using key metrics.
  3. Visualise data with boxplot.

Lecture

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Quiz

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Practical

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