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Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data
| Name: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data |
| ID: | m16314 |
| Language: | English (en) |
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| Subject: | Mathematics and Statistics |
| Keywords: | center, descriptive, elementary, IQR, location, mean, median, mode, percentile, quartile, skew, spread, statistics |
| License: | Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0 |
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| 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) |
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| Latest version: | 1.17 (history) |
| First publication date: | May 8, 2008 2:56 pm -0500 |
| Last revision to module: | May 16, 2012 4:25 am -0500 |
| PDF: | m16314_1.17.pdf | PDF file, for viewing content offline and printing. Learn more. |
| XML: | m16314_1.17.cnxml | XML that defines the structure and contents of the module, minus any included media files. Can be reimported in the editing interface. Learn more. |
| Version: | 1.18 Mar 28, 2013 1:46 am -0500 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Module: Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: Updated the solution to an example. |
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| Version: | 1.17 May 16, 2012 4:25 am -0500 by Susan Dean Currently viewing this version. |
| Changes: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: Minor edits |
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| Version: | 1.16 Mar 14, 2012 9:48 am -0500 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Module: Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: Updated language on percentiles. |
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| Version: | 1.15 Aug 11, 2011 9:06 pm -0500 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: Updated glossary term "quartiles." |
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| Version: | 1.14 Aug 11, 2011 8:28 pm -0500 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: Updated glossary item "outlier." |
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| Version: | 1.13 Jul 7, 2011 8:57 pm -0500 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: Added the word "Guideline." |
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| Version: | 1.12 Jun 22, 2011 10:55 am -0500 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: Added section "Interpreting Percentiles, Quartiles and Median.' |
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| Version: | 1.11 Jul 22, 2010 8:08 pm -0500 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: In the table, Changes "SLEEPPER" to "SLEEP PER." |
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| Version: | 1.10 Feb 19, 2009 9:16 am -0600 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: Updated the glossary items. |
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| Version: | 1.9 Feb 4, 2009 8:34 pm -0600 by Susan Dean |
| Changes: | Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: In the first example, corrected 488,000 to read 488,800. |
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| Version: | 1.8 Oct 27, 2008 1:19 pm -0500 by James Cooper |
| Changes: | roles updated |
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| Version: | 1.7 Jul 14, 2008 11:06 am -0500 by Connexions |
| Changes: | image review |
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| Version: | 1.6 Jul 8, 2008 8:25 pm -0500 by Connexions |
| Changes: | post review edits |
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| Version: | 1.5 Jul 3, 2008 11:27 am -0500 by Connexions |
| Changes: | post review updates |
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| Version: | 1.4 Jun 26, 2008 4:20 pm -0500 by Jonathan Emmons |
| Changes: | Roles changed |
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| Version: | 1.3 Jun 22, 2008 3:43 pm -0500 by Jonathan Emmons |
| Changes: | Updated metadata, made minor corrections, replaced problematic image file |
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| Version: | 1.2 May 23, 2008 3:50 pm -0500 by Uchenna Anyikam |
| Changes: | Built connection and made all future section references absolutely defined |
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| Version: | 1.1 May 22, 2008 10:15 am -0500 by Uchenna Anyikam |
| Changes: | Roles Updated |
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Dean, Susan, and Barbara Illowsky. "Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data." Connexions. May 16, 2012. http://cnx.org/content/m16314/1.17/.
Susan Dean and Barbara Illowsky, "Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data," Connexions, May 16, 2012, http://cnx.org/content/m16314/1.17/.
Dean, S., & Illowsky, B. 2012. Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data. Connexions, May 16, 2012. http://cnx.org/content/m16314/1.17/.
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Last edited by Susan Dean on May 16, 2012 4:25 am -0500.
