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Lesson 3: Basic Descriptive Statistics
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This lesson provides on overview of the general concepts and calculations used in descriptive statistics. It is not intended to provide detailed information about the entire series of calculations one could compute to summarize data.

Upon completion of this lesson you should be able to:

bulletUnderstand the methods for summarizing sets of data
bulletCompute some basic descriptive statistics
bulletComprehend and produce basic graphical representations of data sets
 
LESSON 3
1 Overview
2 Intro to Descriptive Statistics
3 Calculating the Mean or Average
4 Calculating the Median
5 Calculating the Mode
6 Describing the Spread of Data
7 Calculating the Variance
8 Calculating the Standard Deviation
9 Graphical Representation of Data
10 The Stem and Leaf Plot
11 Review Questions
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