standard_description: Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, such as by:
- Reporting the number of observations.
- Describing the nature of the attribute under investigation, including how it was measured and its units of measurement.
- Relating the choice of measures of center and variability to the shape of the data distribution and the context in which the data were gathered.
- Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.
problem_activity: Problem 1
After watching
Why Statistics
from the U.S. Census Bureau and
Why You Need to Study Statistics
from
This is Statistics,
what is statistics and how can it be applied?
Problem 2
Below are two data representations. How are these representations similar? Different?
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Problem 3
Aaron wanted to answer the question “How old are people in Boston?” He accessed this data from the US Census Bureau:
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Aaron looked at the data and was unsure of how to answer his question. He summarized the data from the table above into the histogram below.
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How would you answer Aaron’s question based on the histogram of data?


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