Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

[1] describe types of sampling methods for data collection; [2] interpret frequency tables; [3] display data graphically in stem plots, histograms, boxplots, and scatterplots; [4] calculate measures of the location of data: quartiles and percentiles; [5] calculate measures of the center of data: mean, median, and mode; [6] calculate measures of the spread of data: variance, standard deviation, and range; [7] describe the differences between independent and dependent variables, discrete and continuous variables, and qualitative and quantitative variables; [8] explain what information Pearson's correlation coefficient gives about the dataset