Imagine you are a team leader on a statistical analysis team. Write a memo to your team members explaining the purpose of interquartile range. State what analysis it produces and its limitations.

What will be an ideal response?


The interquartile range gives us a sense of the amount of dispersion across the middle part of a distribution. It does not, however, tell us much about dispersion that may be located in the tails of a distribution.

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a. Reading sections of the article in random order. b. Reading the article in detail from beginning to end. c. Reading the article to obtain the information you need, sometimes by skipping around. d. Reading the article from back to front.

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According to Erikson, the two most important sets of developmental activities for the

young adult in solving the psychosocial crisis of intimacy vs. isolation are a. Selecting a partner and Selecting a career b. Moving away from home and developing friendships c. Getting a car and going to college d. None of the above

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Nonverbal forms of communication can send direct and indirect messages

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Who demonstrated that people with speech and hearing problems could be taught to read

words and to add simple numbers? A) Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard B) Jacob Rodriquez Pereira C) Edouard Seguin D) Johann Guggenbuhl

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