Lesson 5
September 8, 2014
Mon, Sep 8
Review:
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Helpful video for histogram construction in Excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=uLmKJH7zE-Y
Presentation: Measures of Variability:
- Range
- Variance
- Standard Deviation
- Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)
Assignment:
- Use the data from problems 3.11-3.16, 3.19-3.20 (8 data sets) on p. 74-75.
- For each problem data set calculate a full set of descriptive statistics including:
-
- mean
- median
- range
- variance
- standard deviation
- MAD
Reading:
- p. 66-74, Measures of Variability