Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter, students should know:

The function of central tendency measures.

How to calculate and differentiate between the mean, median, and mode.

How to identify the skew of a distribution of scores.

How to determine which measure of central tendency to use to represent a distribution of scores.

How to calculate quartiles and create boxplots.

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