Summarizing Data: Relationships Between Variables

By the end of this module, learners should be able to:

  • Apply a variety of tools from the module Summarizing Data: One Variable to describe how a quantitative variable differs across values of a categorical variable,
  • Describe how the distribution of a categorical variable depends on the values of one or more other categorical variables,
  • Use numerical and graphical summaries to describe the strength and direction of the relationship between two quantitative variables,
  • Use appropriate statistical language to describe the relationship between variables.

Topics covered in this module

Expected time to complete the learning resources in this module:  1.5 hours.

Learning resources:

  1. Data Used in this Module
  2. Relationships Between Quantitative and Categorical Variables ‎(video)
  3. Examining Relationships Between Two Categorical Variables (video)
  4. Relationships Between Two Quantitative Variables (video)
  5. Guide to carrying out the analysis in this module using R (pdf)
  6. Guide to carrying out the analysis in this module using SPSS (pdf)