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Understanding the Standard Deviation: What Makes it Larger or Smaller?

Understanding the Standard Deviation: What Makes it Larger or Smaller?

Using cooperative learning methods, this activity helps students develop a better intuitive understanding of what is meant by variability in statistics. Emphasis is placed on the standard deviation as a measure of variability. This lesson also helps students to discover that the standard deviation is a measure of the density of values about the mean of a distribution. As such, students become more aware of how clusters, gaps, and extreme values affect the standard deviation.
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Material Type:
Assignment
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 18, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
July 18, 2016
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Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
Primary Audience:
College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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Website
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Not specified at this time
Language:
English
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No
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