CEDO Week #3

This week we have done a little more practice with mean, median and mode as well as standards of deviation. We are also dipping into other measures of variance such as z-scores.  This will all culminate with our group designing and implementing a survey in which we can do some statistical analysis.  It will be interesting to implement what we have learned in the class to look at some real data.   hopefully the data will show some kind of trend, but who knows.  That is the fun of statistical analysis

Week #2 In CEDO 540

This week we took a look at measures of central tendency a bit more in depth.  We used Excel to crunch some numbers and run some formulas to pull out the mean, median, mode and standard of deviation on a host of different data.  This was a lot better than running it all by hand and reminded me of labs I did back in college.  We also took a look at a lot of vocabulary that is tied to quantitative analysis.  The most interesting stuff I found was on "Sugging" and "Frugging" where someone pretends to be conducting market research, but is really just trying to figure out the best way to turn around and get you to buy something from them almost immediately. You can read more about the practice here and I suggest you do because it is both diabolically clever and evil at the same time.