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Name: Descriptive Statistics: Practice 1
ID: m16312
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module provides students with opportunities to apply concepts related to descriptive statistics. Students are asked to take a set of sample data and calculate a series of statistical values for that data.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: box, descriptive, deviation, elementary, frequency, histogram, homework, mean, median, mode, percentile, plot, practice, quartile, standard, statistics
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)
Latest version: 1.12 (history)
First publication date: May 16, 2008 12:53 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Feb 18, 2009 7:15 pm -0600

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Version History

Version: 1.12 Feb 18, 2009 7:15 pm -0600 by Connexions
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Upconverted and added appropriate class attribute.
Version: 1.11 Oct 27, 2008 1:30 pm -0500 by James Cooper
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roles updated
Version: 1.10 Aug 21, 2008 10:20 am -0500 by Connexions
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uploaded files
Version: 1.9 Aug 20, 2008 11:16 am -0500 by Jonathan Emmons
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Corrected errors (see m17360 for details)
Version: 1.8 Jul 14, 2008 11:09 am -0500 by Connexions
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Removed image width parameters
Version: 1.7 Jul 8, 2008 8:33 pm -0500 by Connexions
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post review edits
Version: 1.6 Jul 3, 2008 11:29 am -0500 by Connexions
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Version: 1.5 Jun 30, 2008 10:33 pm -0500 by Connexions
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Updated for consistency within collection
Version: 1.4 Jun 27, 2008 10:37 am -0500 by Connexions
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Roles changed
Version: 1.3 Jun 22, 2008 3:24 pm -0500 by Jonathan Emmons
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Updated metadata
Version: 1.2 May 23, 2008 4:35 pm -0500 by Uchenna Anyikam
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Inserted graph image in practice
Version: 1.1 May 22, 2008 10:15 am -0500 by Jonathan Emmons
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Initial publication

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