July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
715 pages
17h 3m
English
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Working with mean, mode, and median
The mean, median, and mode are basic ways to describe characteristics or summarize information from a dataset. When a new, large dataset is first encountered, it can be helpful to know basic information about it to direct further analysis. These values are often used in later analysis to generate more complex measurements and conclusions. This can occur when we use the mean of a dataset to calculate the standard deviation, which we will demonstrate in the Standard deviation section of this chapter.