Review the Discussion FAQs Module.

Reference the Week 2 Case Study.

Respond to one of the following:

• Regarding requirement #4: What impact would an outlier have?
• Regarding requirement #5: Why is it important to look at dispersion? Why is standard deviation a better measure of dispersion than the range?

Week 3 assignment hints

• Hi Class,
• In case you didn’t see, I posted some hints related to Week 2 apply exercises in the “Questions/Comments/Discussions” activity forum.  I encourage you to share your questions and learning to help each other!

Distribution

Why it is important to find the shape of data distribution before computing descriptive statistics? Do all variables follow normal distribution? Explain why or why not. Explain with examples.