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Name: Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data
ID: m17102
Language: English (en)
Summary: This chapter discusses measuring descriptive statistical information using the center of the data
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: elementary, statistics
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
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: Jun 26, 2008 11:33 am -0500
Last revision to module: Jul 3, 2012 12:26 pm -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.13 Mar 28, 2013 1:40 am -0500 by Susan Dean
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Module: Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data: Added calculator instructions.
Version: 1.12 Jul 3, 2012 12:26 pm -0500 by Susan Dean Currently viewing this version.
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Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data: Minor edit.
Version: 1.11 May 15, 2012 11:11 pm -0500 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data: Clarified language about mean and average.  Added language to clarify the relationship between sample and population means.
Version: 1.10 Mar 14, 2012 9:53 am -0500 by Susan Dean
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Module: Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data: Updated Mean, Median and Mode language.
Version: 1.9 Mar 8, 2010 8:32 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data: Added Sampling Distributions and Statistic of a Sampling Distribution.
Version: 1.8 Feb 7, 2009 11:49 am -0600 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data: Clarified the language in the glossary items "mean" and "median."
Version: 1.7 Jan 22, 2009 8:22 am -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
 Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data: For the Aids example, enhanced the 20th and 21st values (the two 24s) so that they could be seen more clearly.
Version: 1.6 Jan 8, 2009 10:24 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Measuring the Center of the Data:  Added a sentence at the very beginning of the section to provide a transition from the previous section.
Version: 1.5 Jan 8, 2009 7:49 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
In Descriptive Statistics: Measures of the "Center" of the data, for clarity added "because it is not affected by the precise numerical values of the outliers" to the end of the sentence after the phrase "when there are extreme values or outliers."
Also, added examples to help explain the location of the median expression (n+1)/2.
Version: 1.4 Oct 27, 2008 1:15 pm -0500 by James Cooper
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roles updated
Version: 1.3 Jul 14, 2008 11:05 am -0500 by Connexions
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image review
Version: 1.2 Jul 3, 2008 11:26 am -0500 by Connexions
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post review updates
Version: 1.1 Jun 26, 2008 6:25 pm -0500 by Connexions
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