Answering Questions with DataXYZ Homework Edition

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2.6 Using Descriptive Statistics with data

Remember, you will be learning how to compute descriptive statistics using software in the labs. Check out the lab manual exercises for descriptives to see some examples of working with real data.

Adapted from Answering Questions with Data: Introductory Statistics for Psychology Students, by Matthew J. C. Crump (Brooklyn College of CUNY), crumplab.com/statistics, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Portions adapt Danielle Navarro's Learning Statistics with R (CC BY-SA). Changes were made; this adaptation is distributed under the same license. License: CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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