National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data Detectives Camp

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National Center for Health Statistics

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Data Detectives Summer Camp 2017

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1. Please rate your knowledge / understanding of the concepts below:
		Know It Well	Have Heard / Seen It		No Clue
Types of statistical data (e.g., numerical, categorical, ordinal)
Computing summary statistics - means, median, modes, etc.
Computing percentiles (lower quartile, upper quartile, 25th percentile, etc.)
Graphically presenting data
	Creating and interpreting box and whisker plots
	Creating and interpreting histograms
	Scatter Plots
Bivariate associations
Interpreting two-way tables
Probability
Sampling variability
Drawing inferences about a population
Comparing populations

2. In a short paragraph, 4-6 sentences (no more than 1000 characters), please tell us what is your favorite math concept, equation, or number? Why?

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