Statistics for PsychologyHomework 1

Statistics for PsychologyHomework 1-Due Wednesday September 9th at 1pm Adapted from Aron, Coups, & Aron (2013)

This assignment has 4 questions.

1. (a) Describe and explain the difference between the mean, median, and mode. (b) Make up and example (not in the book or the lectures) in which the median would be the preferred measure of central tendency.
2. (a) Describe the variance and standard deviation. (b) Explain why the standard deviation is more often used as a descriptive statistics than the variance.
3. For the following score, find the (a) mean, (b) median, (c) sum of squared deviations, (d) variance, and (e) st