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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rossman, Allan J.
• Chance, Beth L.

Titel

Measures of Center

Ist Teil von

• Workshop Statistics, p.47-63

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: Springer New York

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• You have been exploring distributions of data, representing them graphically, and describing their key features verbally. For convenience, it is often desirable to have a single numerical measure to summarize a certain aspect of a distribution. In this topic you will encounter some of the more common measures of the center of a distribution, investigate their properties, apply them to some genuine data, and expose some of their limitations.