As a result of this chapter, students will learn

As a result of this chapter, students will be able to

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What a statistic is and what it is used for

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What an average is and what the common ways of determining an average are

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What quartiles are and what they tell you about data

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What an outlier is

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What a boxplot is, how to read the information in a boxplot, and how to interpret boxplots

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How to compare data sets in order to answer real-world problems

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Compute various summary statistics by hand and with software

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Make a boxplot by hand or with software

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Incorporate graphs from software into a Word document effectively to support your work

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Correctly use data stored in spreadhseet cells in computations

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Explain what happens to various statistics if the data is increased by a constant amount or by a fixed percentage