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Lesson Plan: First Day Statistics Activity—Grouping Qualitative Data

September 15, 2017

By R.B. Campbell (Grades 6-8, 9-12+) This activity, published in April of 2014, provides a foundation for distinguishing between qualitative (categorical) and quantitative data and how they can be summarized and analyzed (a topic encountered early in a statistics course). This lesson illustrates how categorical data can be grouped to make the data comprehensible. It also … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: First Day Statistics Activity—Grouping Qualitative Data

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