This series of webinars presents individual activities with complete do-it-yourself guidance. They are usually held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 2:30pm Eastern time. Hosted by Leigh Slauson, Capital University.
CAUSE webinars are made possible by generous contributions from:
Freeman Publishing
JMP® software from SAS
Minitab Inc.
Pearson Higher Education
"Using Your Hair To Understand Descriptive Statistics"
with Tisha Hooks, Winona State University
October 26th, 2010
The purpose of this webinar is to introduce an activity to enhance students' understanding of various descriptive measures. In particular, by completing this hands-on activity students will experience a visual interpretation of a mean, median, outlier, and the concept of distance-to-mean.