2. • IF WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHY SOME
HOCKEY TEAMS ARE GOOD OR SOME TEAMS ARE
BAD, WHERE WOULD WE LOOK?
• WE MAY WANT TO LOOK AT A NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT LEVELS FOR THE ANSWER -
• THE PLAYERS
• THE TEAM
• THE LEAGUE

3. POSSIBLE VARIABES:
Number of goals for a player (Interval)
Player’s position (Categorical)
Player’s ranking on the team – first line, second
line or third line (Ordinal)

4. POSSIBLE VARIABES:
Team’s budget or number of goals for the whole
team(Interval)
Does the team have more, the same, or less
practices than other teams? (Ordinal)

5. POSSIBLE VARIABLES:
Ranking in the draft for new players (Ordinal)
Number of penalty minutes (Interval)

6. • Let’s say we are interested, not in hockey, but
in voter turnout. (just pretend)
• Where might we look?

7. POSSIBLE VARIABES:
Number of times the citizen
voted in the last ten years
(Interval)
Party the individual voted for
(Categorical)

8. POSSIBLE VARIABES:
Poll numbers for the leading
parties (Interval)
Negativity of political ads –
from very negative to very
positive (Ordinal)

9. POSSIBLE VARIABES:
Amount of money spent on
the campaign (Interval)
Number of days of advanced
polling (Interval)
How well known candidates
are – very well known to
totally unknown (Ordinal)

10. POSSIBLE VARIABES:
Type of electoral system used
(Categorical)
Political freedom is high, close
to the median, or low (Ordinal)
Economic development – GDP
(Interval)