Question

which statistical analysis to use for a survey on a group of 6 people of 3 questions with four choices each strongly positive, positive, neutral and not positive and show an example

Answer 1

The data you will get will be a qualitative i.e. Numeric will be unavailable hence you can convert it into quantitative and analyse it.

You can analyse the data of answers from people in various ways. In the real world, depending upon your requirements, you can choose the statistical analysis and tools for the conclusion about your requirement you want to draw.

You can use below methods for qualitative data :-

1. Graphical analysis :

1) Bar chart :

A. In this, you can analyse the number of times people chose each choice out of 18 times as there are 6 people and 3 questions.

B. You can analyse how is the response of each person to 3 question by counting the choice he/she has chosen.

C. You can analyse how is the response of the people towards a questions by taking choice they have chosen under cimsideration

2) Pie chart :

A. You can show what is the proportion of a choice getting chosen out of the four, i.e. How much likely people will choose a choice out of the four.

2. Checking independency of two attributes (i.e. Checking independecy between people and choices :

If you want to check the independecy between the people and choices i.e. Do a person often selects a particular choice or is a choice affecting a person's selection, then you can go for chi square test for checking independency.

Let's see above with some example :

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By takin

H0 : People and choices are independent from each other i.e. Choices do not affect selection of choices by people

Versus

H1 : People and choices are dependent i.e. Choices do affect on selection of choice by people