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ERIC Number: EJ749645
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Oct
Pages: 6
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
Transformations on Data Sets and Their Effects on Descriptive Statistics
Fox, Thomas B.
Mathematics Teacher, v99 n3 p208-213 Oct 2005
The activity asks students to examine the effects on the descriptive statistics of a data set that has undergone either a translation or a scale change. They make conjectures relative to the effects on the statistics of a transformation on a data set and then they defend their conjectures and deductively verify several of them.
Descriptors: Statistics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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