More than "meanmedianandmode" and a bar graph: What's needed to have a statistical conversation?

Book: 
Thinking and reasoning with data and chance: Sixty-eighth Yearbook.
Authors: 
Friel, S. N., O'Connor, W., & Mamer, J. D.
Editors: 
Burrill, G. F.
Type: 
Chapter
Category: 
Teaching
Pages: 
117-137
Year: 
2006
Publisher: 
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Reston, VA.
Abstract: 

This article focuses on the ideas on what it means to "do statistics", and the important ideas used for data analysis, namely characterizing the shape of data distributions and their variability and center.

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