For this discussion post, we are going to run a set of descriptive statistics to help describe our sample. For the following dataset, find the sample mean, median, mode, sample standard deviation, range, Q1, Q3, IQR:

30, 35, 27, 42, 50, 26, 23, 47, 23, 29, 41, 45, 21, 50, 47, 24, 26

Use the following calculator to help: https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/statistics/descriptivestatistics.phpLinks to an external site.

Answer the following questions in your initial post:

1. Report your sample mean, median, mode, sample standard deviation, range, Q1, Q3, and IQR. Do not forget, we are looking at a sample set here, so we need to use the sample standard deviation.
2. Compare the measures of center (mean, median, mode). How similar or different are they? Does the relationship between the mean and median tell us anything about the symmetry/skew of the dataset?
3. Look at the measures of spread (standard deviation, range, IQR). How do these compare to one another? What do they tell us about the spread of our dataset?