2.7 Learning Objectives Revisited

Learning Objectives

As a result of completing this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

  • Choose proper measures to describe the centre and spread (variation) of a distribution (Section 2.1).
  • Calculate the mean, median, mode, standard deviation, range, and interquartile range of the given data, if applicable (Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3).
  • Calculate the quartiles and five-number summary of the data (Section 2.4).
  • Draw a boxplot for the given data (Section 2.4).
  • Explain the meaning of a z-score (Section 2.6).

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