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Question No. 1 - 125 words with reference.
Now that you have a pretty good handle on statistics, you might find this article interesting.
Article - How to Lie with Statistics by Stanley Erickson
Please feel free to read and post your thoughts in your discussions this week.
Question No. 2- 125 words with reference.
Assessment Question: Correlated Variables
Class, please take a minute to describe at least one example of two variables (from your workplace experiences) that are strongly correlated. How does this affect how you interpret the results of that study? Is there a difference between correlation and causation?
Question No. 3
In your Summary and Descriptive Statistics assignment, you are asked to find measures of central tendency and variation. Please go to the following website healthdata.gov and find an excel (.xls, .xlsx, .csv, ...) file that contains at least one quantitative variable/column. Like your assignment, find the following with the quantitative variable:
• Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode
• Measures of Variation: Variance, Standard Deviation, and Range
• Be sure to attach your excel document to your post.
Question No. 4 - 125 words with reference.
Reflect on what you have learned over the past 5 weeks and reflect on your progress. Do you have a different appreciation for statistics than you did when you started this class? Do you think that the information you learned in this class will make you a better consumer of information/data in the future? Do you still find statistics as intimidating as you did before? Please take a minute to provide your feedback.
Your participation in this assignment will also count in your participation in the class.
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