OUTLINE of Chapter 3: Elementary Statistics: A Brief Version, (A. Bluman 3rd Ed., 2003).

*<Tab/>Summarize data using measures of central tendency, such as the mean, median, mode, and midrange. *<Tab/>Describe data using the measures of variation, such as the range, variance, and standard deviation. *<Tab/>Identify the position of a data value in a data set using various measures of position, such as percentiles, deciles, and quartiles. *<Tab/>Use the techniques …

…standard deviation in relationship to the mean. *<Tab/>These methods are commonly called traditional statistics. *<Tab/>Other methods, such as the boxplot and five-number summary, are part of exploratory data analysis; they are used to examine data to see what they reveal. Conclusions *<Tab/>By combining all of these techniques together, the student is now able to collect, organize, summarize and present data.