College Mathematics/Data Analysis and Statistics
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Data Analysis and Statistics
Objectives and Skills[edit | edit source]
Objectives and skills for the data analysis and statistics portion of CLEP College Mathematics include:[1]
- Data interpretation and representation: tables, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, pie charts, scatterplots, and histograms
- Numerical summaries of data: mean (average), median, mode, and range
- Standard deviation, normal distribution (conceptual questions only)
- Applications
Readings[edit | edit source]
- Wikipedia: Table
- Wikipedia: Chart
- Wikipedia: Mean
- Wikipedia: Median
- Wikipedia: Mode (statistics)
- Wikipedia: Standard deviation
- Wikipedia: Normal distribution
Multimedia[edit | edit source]
Activities[edit | edit source]
- Review the following MathsIsFun resources and complete the questions at the bottom of each page:
- Data Representation
- Data Summaries
- Finding a Central Value
- How to Find the Mean
- How to Find the Median Value
- How to Find the Mode
- The Range (Statistics)
- Standard Deviation and Normal Distribution
- Complete the Purplemath: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range tutorial.