Quiz Question for Ch. 14

If your purpose in a study is to describe rather than to explain, what type of an analysis would you most likely conduct?

1. a bivariate analysis
2. a multivariate analysis
3. a univariate analysis
4. none of above

Answer: C

Reasons:

a. and b. analysis are geared more toward an explanation and finding of the empirical relationships between variables. For the bivariate, the relationship is between two variables and for multivariate; the relationship is between more than two variables.

c. a univariate analysis focuses on describing the variable by the distribution of attributes that comprise it

d. this answer is false for the real answer is included in the selection