About This Textbook
This resource covers the following learning objectives:
- explain the uses and misuses of statistics;
- demonstrate an understanding of mean, median, mode, range, quartiles, percentiles, standard deviation, the normal curve, z scores, sampling error, and confidence intervals;
- graphically present data in the form of frequency tables, line graphs, bar graphs, and stem and leaf plots;
- design and conduct a statistics project; and
- analyze the data and communicate your observations about the data.
This textbook was written for Adult Basic Education (ABE) Advanced Level Mathematics.
Author
Paul Grinder
Publisher
British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Training and Technology
Publish Date
2000
Level
Adult Basic Education
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