[Informatics] How many records for a data set?

[McCleary Scott]

Twice the distance from the middle to one end.

From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Laurie Savage
Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:42 AM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Informatics] How many records for a data set?

There are some statistical rules that describe what levels of confidence you can ascribe to inferences based on the sample size. Any good statistics text will help you there. I suggest you Google "sample size confidence limits" or something similar.

A common fault is to make a sample too large for the question.

Laurie Savage (IT Teacher, Retired)
How long is a piece of string?


Laurie Savage
IT Teacher Emeritus.

On 4 May 2016 at 20:49, McCleary Scott <McCS at jpc.vic.edu.au<mailto:McCS at jpc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
Apologies if this has already been answered somewhere but I’m just wondering what sort of numbers of records students should be looking at for each data set?

i.e. how many unique pieces of data in each set?

Thanks,

Scott McCleary
John Paul College
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