NEED FOR ANALYSIS OF DATA OR TREATMENT OF DATA

After administering and scoring research tools scripts, data collected and organized. The collected data are known as ‘raw data.’ The raw data are meaningless unless certain statistical treatment is given to them. Analysis of data means to make the raw data meaningful or to draw some results from the data after the proper treatment. The ‘null hypotheses’ are tested with the help of analysis data so to obtain some significant results. Thus, the analysis of data serves the following main functions:

1. To make the raw data meaningful,

2. To test null hypothesis,

3. To obtain the significant results,

4. To draw some inferences or make generalization, and

5. To estimate parameters.