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Name: Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data
ID: m16314
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module describes a number of statistical measures used to describe data, such as percentiles, spread, and skewness.
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 2.0
Authors: Susan Dean (deansusan@deanza.edu), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (deansusan@deanza.edu), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)
Latest version: 1.10 (history)
First publication date: May 8, 2008 2:56 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Feb 19, 2009 9:16 am US/Central
Module XML: m16314_1.10.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.10 Feb 19, 2009 9:16 am US/Central by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data:  Updated the glossary items.
Version: 1.9 Feb 4, 2009 8:34 pm US/Central by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Location of the Data: In the first example, corrected 488,000 to read 488,800.
Version: 1.8 Oct 27, 2008 1:19 pm GMT-5 by James Cooper
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roles updated
Version: 1.7 Jul 14, 2008 11:06 am GMT-5 by Connexions
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image review
Version: 1.6 Jul 8, 2008 8:25 pm GMT-5 by Connexions
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post review edits
Version: 1.5 Jul 3, 2008 11:27 am GMT-5 by Connexions
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post review updates
Version: 1.4 Jun 26, 2008 4:20 pm GMT-5 by Jonathan Emmons
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Roles changed
Version: 1.3 Jun 22, 2008 3:43 pm GMT-5 by Jonathan Emmons
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Updated metadata, made minor corrections, replaced problematic image file
Version: 1.2 May 23, 2008 3:50 pm GMT-5 by Uchenna Anyikam
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Built connection and made all future section references absolutely defined
Version: 1.1 May 22, 2008 10:15 am GMT-5 by Uchenna Anyikam
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Roles Updated

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