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Name: Descriptive Statistics: Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode
ID: m17104
Language: English (en)
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: 1.9 (history)
First publication date: Jun 26, 2008 11:35 am -0500
Last revision to module: May 16, 2012 4:46 am -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.9 May 16, 2012 4:46 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode: Minor edits.
Version: 1.8 Mar 14, 2012 9:56 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Module: Descriptive Statistics: Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode: Updated language.
Version: 1.7 Jun 13, 2011 10:23 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Module: Descriptive Statistics: Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode: Added the word "often" before "the same" in the statement "In a perfectly symmetrical distribution, the mean, the median, and the
mode are the same."
Version: 1.6 Feb 19, 2010 4:50 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode: The 2nd and 3rd examples had incorrect data and that data was corrected.
Version: 1.5 Jan 8, 2009 8:19 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode: Defined symmetrical histogram; Defined "skewed to the left."
Version: 1.4 Oct 27, 2008 1:33 pm -0500 by James Cooper
Changes: 
roles updated
Version: 1.3 Jul 14, 2008 11:17 am -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
Removed image width parameters
Version: 1.2 Jul 3, 2008 11:30 am -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
post review updates
Version: 1.1 Jun 26, 2008 6:28 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
Initial publication

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