Describing Distributions
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Statistically Speaking
- Grade Level: Senior High (10-12)-Adult
- Subjects: Business mathematics
- Produced By: Coast Learning Systems
- Year: 2011
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 30m
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Professionals of all types must make sense out of the huge amounts of data they collect on a daily basis. Researchers first try to impose some sort of order on their data by looking at the average values and the extent to which their numbers vary from day to day or month to month. Business owners face the challenge of making sure they have enough staff to accommodate customers while not having so many that it hurts their bottom line. Using the right descriptions of their data enables management to schedule workforces appropriately.