Reference Topics 14-2

This site is a glossary of statistical terms:
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm

This site provides some practice with the mean:
http://www.robertniles.com/stats/mean.shtml

This site provides some practice with the median:
http://www.robertniles.com/stats/median.shtml

This interactive site calculates the mean, median, and mode for a data set.… See the whole entry

Section 14.2: Descriptive Statistics

14.2 Outline
  1. Measures of Central Tendency
    1. mean
    2. median
    3. mode
    4. weighted mean
  2. Measures of Position
    1. quartiles
    2. deciles
    3. percentiles
  3. Measures of Dispersion
    1. range
    2. boxplot
    3. variance of the population
    4. variance of a random sample
    5. standard deviation

 

14.2 Essential Ideas

Averages or measures See the whole entry