Monday, January 27, 2020

2.5-2.6 Measures of Central Tendency

Comic of the Day


Tip: Laughter is the best medicine.  It makes the math hurt less.

Canadian music to study to
Tom Cochrane - "median"
Tragically Hip - "meridian"


Deadlines & Announcements
Lab 2 Mobius questions due Fri Jan 31
Production Assignment 1 due Sun Feb 2 (will need to submit draft to WriteOn several days in advance)
Chapter 1&2 assignments (Moodle) due Mon Feb 3
Watch your rounding for the assignments.  Keep extra decimals for intermediate answers, then round your final answer only.
Theory Exam (Chapter 1&2) in class Mon Feb 3
Drop-in tutorials will run every Tue 12-12:50 in CAT286 (computer lab)

Today - 2.5-2.6 Measures of Central Tendency
Notes on Moodle
How are meanmedian, and mode affected by an outlier?

Remember: A meridian is a line on a map, not a statistical term or what you crash your car into!



Next Lecture - 2.7 Measures of Variation
Pre-read §2.7
Practice this online activity to calculate standard deviation
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/data-distributions-a1/summarizing-spread-distributions/a/calculating-standard-deviation-step-by-step

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