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Statistics Definitions
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This page describes a Qedoc learning module or quiz entitled "Statistics Definitions". You can download the module from this page to put on your computer. You can also launch the module straight off the web using the launch quiz link on the right-hand side of this page. Another way to access this quiz is to install the Qedoc Quiz Player and bring up its directory of downloadable quizzes. Whichever way you choose to use it, it's free.
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Description
A quiz about concepts used in statistics. Introductory level.
Sample questions
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- This consists of the median, the quartiles, and the smallest and largest individual observations. It provides a quick overall description of a distribution.
- A distribution where the values smaller and larger that its midpoint are mirror images of each other
- This type of plot of a variable plots each observation against the time at which it was measured.
- This points out observations beyond the quartiles that may be outliers.
- Observations that lie outside the overall pattern of a distribution
- This has three-fourths or 75% of the observations below it
- This has one-fourth or 25% of the observations below it.
- Name two ways to describe the center of a distribution
- Look for four things when examining a distribution
- Objects that are studied that are not people
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- Not so easy: click the download link at the bottom of the "quick facts" box and the module's ZIP file will download to your desktop. To actually use this, however, you must move it to the /player/modplay subdirectory of whichever directory the Qedoc software is installed in (usually /programme files/qedoc).
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