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| + | * Identify the symmetry or left or right skew in boxplots. | ||
* Comparing boxplots across groups, tell which groups have the greatest, and least, medians. | * Comparing boxplots across groups, tell which groups have the greatest, and least, medians. | ||
* Comparing boxplots across groups, tell which groups have the greatest, and least, interquartile range. | * Comparing boxplots across groups, tell which groups have the greatest, and least, interquartile range. | ||
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| + | == Chapter 5 == | ||
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| + | * Given the mean and standard deviation for the raw scores, compute the z-score for a particular raw score. | ||
| + | * Given the mean and standard deviation for the raw scores, compute the raw score for a particular z-score. | ||
| + | * Interpret a z-score as the number of standard deviations above the mean. | ||
Revision as of 17:49, 3 February 2018
By the end of the course, students will be able to ...
Chapter 1
- Given a data table and the story behind the data, identify the cases and list the variables.
- Identify a variable as either nominal, ordinal, identifier, binary, or quantitative.
Chapter 2
- Define and report the distribution of a categorical variable.
- Be able to convert between frequency, relative frequency, and percent.
- Tell when two plots of categorical data show the same distribution.
Chapter 3
- Define distribution of a quantitative variable.
- Create stem and leaf displays from data.
- Tell from a histogram whether a distribution is symmetric or left or right skewed.
- Tell whether a histogram is uniform, unimodal, bimodal, or multimodal and why.
- Tell whether a histogram shows outliers, or gaps.
- Describe how to compute the median.
- Describe how to compute the mean.
- Describe how to compute the lower and upper quartiles and the interquartile range (IQR).
- Describe how to compute the standard deviation.
- For summary statistics, describe the difference between resistant to outliers and sensitive to outliers.
- Compute the 5-number summary of data.
- Given data, compute the value for a specific percentile.
- Given data, compute the percentile for a specific value.
Chapter 4
- Identify the symmetry or left or right skew in boxplots.
- Comparing boxplots across groups, tell which groups have the greatest, and least, medians.
- Comparing boxplots across groups, tell which groups have the greatest, and least, interquartile range.
Chapter 5
- Given the mean and standard deviation for the raw scores, compute the z-score for a particular raw score.
- Given the mean and standard deviation for the raw scores, compute the raw score for a particular z-score.
- Interpret a z-score as the number of standard deviations above the mean.
