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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
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: 1.4 (history)
Created: Jun 26, 2008 11:33 am GMT-5
Revised: Oct 27, 2008 1:15 pm GMT-5

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