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Norms
Message posted by Corné (via 196.30.194.2) on February 12, 2002 at 6:27 AM (ET)
I gather information on a regular basis from several tests on athletes (scholars), i want to use all this data (including the history) to calculate norms for each test.
for instance: i have the sprinting times for students over 30m. I want to have norms as follows:
Poor : >6sec
Average : 5 - 5.99sec
Good : 4 - 4.99sec
Very Good 3 - 3.99sec
Excellent : < 2.99sec
but I want to use the stored data to determine these. What would be the best/easiest way to do this?
READERS RESPOND:
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Re: Norms
Message posted by JG (via 205.188.196.54) on February 13, 2002 at 5:13 AM (ET)
First plot the data and do frequency distributions to see what you have.
Re: Norms
Message posted by Corne (via 196.30.194.2) on February 13, 2002 at 8:24 AM (ET)
OK, I did that. Now what?
Re: Norms
Message posted by JG (via 64.12.101.166) on February 14, 2002 at 4:10 AM (ET)
Eyeball your data for patterns. Have you done scatter diagrams, time series plots, box-and-whiskers plots, etc. ?
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