Descriptive Statistics, Measures of Central Tendency, and Dispersion

http://www.nyx.net/~tmacfarl/STAT_TUT/cent_tnd.ssi

This tutorial describes various measures of central tendency, their theory and use, and demonstrates them with an example on final exam scores. Data is given as well as SPSS and Minitab code. Key Words: Mean; Median; Mode; Variance; Standard Deviation.

Resource Type	Tutorial (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
Format	html
Audience	College --Undergrad Upper Division
Source	http://www.nyx.net/~tmacfarl/STAT_TUT/stat_tut.ssi
Email Address	t_macfarland@hotmail.com
Date Of Record Creation	2006-08-30 09:32:40
Date Of Record Release	2006-08-29 18:06:17
Date Last Modified	2006-08-30 10:31:01
Statistical Topic	Data Presentation -- One Numerical Variable -- Measures of Location Data Presentation -- One Numerical Variable -- Measures of Spread
Material Type	Lecture Examples
Author's Name	Thomas W. MacFarland
Author's Organization	Nova Southeastern University
Source Code Available	No
Intended User Role	Learner
Application Area	Psychology Sociology
Copyrights	Yes
Cost involved with use	Free to all
Math Level	Algebra level symbolic math

Date Record Checked: 2006-08-29 00:00:00

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Descriptive Statistics, Measures of Central Tendency, and Dispersion