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Class 2 and project 1 mth119 honors powerpoint sp17
This document summarizes key topics from a math honors class, including measures of central tendency, descriptive statistics projects, and how to use the StatCrunch software. It discusses measures like mean, median, interquartile range, and standard deviation. It also covers the empirical rule, five number summary, boxplots, histograms, outliers, and how to generate graphs in StatCrunch. Students are instructed to work on a descriptive statistics project analyzing real data and calculating various metrics.
Class 2 and project 1 mth119 honors powerpoint sp17
- 1. Math 119 Honors SUSANMCCOURT SPRING 2017 DAY 2
- 2. Last Time • Syllabus •Project 1 • IntroductoryVocabulary • Descriptive Statistics • Measures of Center • Measures of Dispersion • Survey
- 3. StatCrunch • www.statcrunch.com • Basicfeatures • Class space: MTH 119 Honors Spring 2017 • Resources tabs gives help document and links to videos to help you. • Also consider looking for what you want on youtube
- 4. Descriptive Statistics PROJECT 1– PART 2
- 5. StatCrunch Applet: Mean andStandard Deviation • Follow the instructions • Discover and build your intuition • Take notes! • Ask questions of me and each other • HINT: start learning the vocabulary and notation
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- 7. Five Number Summary •Breaks all of the sorted data into four quartiles, each with the same number of data points.
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- 11. Interquartile Range andFences Build the Fences: 1. Multiply IQR by 1.5 2. Lower fence = Q1 – 1.5 IQR 3. Upper fence = Q3 + 1.5 IQR Outliers (if any) are outside these fences.
- 12. Outliers and Fenceson Boxplot
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- 14. StatCrunch: any numericalstatistic Mean Median IQR Max Standard deviation Range
- 15. StatCrunch Graphs Be sureto select a column and then pick features for your graph. Once you have your graph you can edit it and choose other features, etc.
- 16. Project 1 • CourseMaterial is covered • Groups • Data • Other ?
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