Technology Has Proliferated in Kenya and Somaliland, with Text Messages

question 30

True/False

Technology has proliferated in Kenya and Somaliland, with text messages used to replace cash, creating mobile money use that, on a population percentage basis, exceeds any nation in the West.

Distinguish between measures of center (mean, median) and measures of spread (range, IQR, standard deviation) and select the most appropriate measure for a given data set.

Calculate and understand what standard deviation indicates about data spread.

Match data sets with appropriate visual representations like histograms or boxplots.

Distinguish between the characteristics of different distributions (e.g., skewness, bimodality) using both graphical representations and summary statistics.

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