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    This document describes 6 types of questions that can be asked when analyzing data: descriptive, exploratory, inferential, predictive, causal, and mechanistic. Descriptive questions summarize characteristics of data, exploratory questions identify patterns or relationships, inferential questions generalize findings, predictive questions estimate future outcomes, causal questions determine causation between variables, and mechanistic questions explain underlying processes. Examples are provided for each type of question.

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    L Y S I S

    ANA
    EPICYCLES
    By SABRI MAHMOUD
    TYPES OF
    QUESTIONS

    1 Descriptive 4 Predictive

    2 Exploratory 5 Causal

    3 Inferential 6 Mechanistic
    DESCRIPTIVE
    Example

    Seeks to What is the average amount of


    summarize a weight loss observed in
    characteristic individuals who exercise
    of a set of data regularly?
    EXPLORATORY
    Example

    Are there any patterns or


    You analyze the data to see if trends in weight loss among
    there are patterns, trends, or individuals who exercise
    relationships between regularly, and what factors may
    variables influence these patterns?
    INFERENTIAL
    Example

    Can we generalize the findings


    A restatement of the from a small study on the
    proposed hypothesis as a relationship between exercise
    question and would be and weight loss to the larger
    answered by analyzing a population, and how confident
    different set of data are we in this conclusion?
    PREDICTIVE
    Example

    Based on data from previous


    A type of question that aims studies, can we predict how
    to predict or estimate what much weight loss an individual
    will happen in the future can expect to achieve if they
    based on past or present data engage in a certain level of
    exercise over a period of time?
    CAUSAL
    Example

    Does exercise directly cause


    A type of question that seeks weight loss, or are there other
    to understand the relationship factors that need to be
    between two or more considered to establish a
    variables and determine causal relationship between
    whether one variable causes exercise and weight loss?
    the other
    MECHANISTIC
    Example

    What are the specific biological


    A type of question that seeks mechanisms by which exercise
    to understand the underlying leads to weight loss, and how
    mechanisms or processes that do these mechanisms vary
    explain how a particular depending on factors such as
    phenomenon or system works age, gender, and exercise
    intensity?
    THANK
    YOU
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