Chapter 14

Reference Topics 14-3

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

This excellent site presents a tutorial over several measures of dispersion: range, percentile scores, quartile scores, variance, standard deviation, and z-scores.
http://simon.cs.vt.edu/SoSci/converted/Dispersion_I/activity.html… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 14-2

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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

Reference Topics 14-1

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

This interactive site will help you construct histograms.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/histogram/index.html

Stem-and-leaf plot discussion.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/discussions/steml.html

The title of this site describes what it is about: “Statistics Every Writer Should Know.”
http://robertniles.com/stats/

If you … See the whole entry

History 14-2

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This is one of the best all around sites that I have found. It is titled “The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.”
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history

This is an award-winning site that links to all sorts of mathematics information.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/History_overview

Quetelet:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Quetelet.html… See the whole entry