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Module by: Susan Dean, Dr. Barbara Illowsky

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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
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)

Authors: Susan Dean (deansusan@deanza.edu), Dr. Barbara Illowsky (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (deansusan@deanza.edu), Dr. Barbara Illowsky (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)

Version: 1.11 (history)
Created: May 16, 2008 12:53 pm GMT-5
Revised: Oct 27, 2008 1:30 pm GMT-5

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Version: 1.11 Oct 27, 2008 1:30 pm GMT-5 by James Cooper
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Version: 1.10 Aug 21, 2008 10:20 am GMT-5 by Connexions
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Version: 1.9 Aug 20, 2008 11:16 am GMT-5 by Jonathan Emmons
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Version: 1.8 Jul 14, 2008 11:09 am GMT-5 by Connexions
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Version: 1.7 Jul 8, 2008 8:33 pm GMT-5 by Connexions
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Version: 1.6 Jul 3, 2008 11:29 am GMT-5 by Connexions
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Version: 1.5 Jun 30, 2008 10:33 pm GMT-5 by Connexions
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Version: 1.4 Jun 27, 2008 10:37 am GMT-5 by Connexions
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Version: 1.3 Jun 22, 2008 3:24 pm GMT-5 by Jonathan Emmons
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Version: 1.2 May 23, 2008 4:35 pm GMT-5 by Uchenna Anyikam
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Version: 1.1 May 22, 2008 10:15 am GMT-5 by Jonathan Emmons
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