Chapter 6 Statistics

Gerd Altmann [CC0]

Today the world is dominated by huge amounts of data. To organize that data, we need to be able to represent it in some meaningful way. In this chapter we’ll look at some simple ways to represent data graphically. once we have done that, we’ll examine different ways we can summarize data numerically. This will help us to master the learning outcome

  • Compute measures of central tendency and dispersion for a collection of statistical data.

Section 1 – Representing Data

Section 2 – Measuring Central Tendency

Section 3 – Measuring Spread

Section 4 – The Normal Distribution (coming soon)

Chapter 6 Workbook Solutions (PDF) – 9/4/19