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Professor Staulbaumer Looked at the Number of Arrests for Drunken

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Professor Staulbaumer looked at the number of arrests for drunken driving on the roads in ten urban and ten rural counties of Nebraska. He found police made more arrests on roads in the rural counties. The professor concluded that people who live in rural areas are more likely to drink and drive than are people who live in urban areas. Staulbaumer's conclusion has the problem of

Recognize the influence of outliers and distribution shapes (e.g., skewed, bimodal) on measures of central tendency.

Distinguish between the uses of measures of central tendency for different data types (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio).

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Analyze the distribution characteristics, including shape and the relationship between mean and median.

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