1. What is the first step a researcher should take when they receive a data set? How do researchers maintain confidentiality of participants in a data set?
2. What is the importance of a codebook? What types of questions can the codebook begin to answer?
3. Explain the difference between continuous and categorical variables. Is there ever an instance where a variable can be thought of as both continuous and categorical?
4. Explainthenullandalternativehypothesis.Howdoesthep-valuesandalpharelatetothesehypotheses?

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