Video Links 14-2
Videos:
Measures of Central Tendency (time: 2:00)
Medians and Quartiles (time: 5:42)
Boxplots (time: 4:15)
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Median
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
Homework Hints 14-2
Problems 1-8
There are many problems throughout the text labeled IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Just relax; do not be afraid to give your opinion. For the most part, these questions do not have “right” or “wrong” answers. You should spend … See the whole entry
Section 14.2: Descriptive Statistics
14.2 Outline
- Measures of Central Tendency
- mean
- median
- mode
- weighted mean
- Measures of Position
- quartiles
- deciles
- percentiles
- Measures of Dispersion
- range
- boxplot
- variance of the population
- variance of a random sample
- standard deviation
- mean
- median
- mode
- weighted mean
- quartiles
- deciles
- percentiles
- range
- boxplot
- variance of the population
- variance of a random sample
- standard deviation
14.2 Essential Ideas
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