Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Slide Rules


Well we started out with mental math like usual, then added from yesterday about the different tools to find standard deviation on ronblond.com. He then showed us what a Z-score is. Its a normalized or standardized score that consiters relative ranking in terms of mean and standard deviation. Then he showed us an ancient hand held tool called a slide-rule and showed us by hand how nasty the numbers are when doing standard deviation by hand. questions 2 and 8 are for homework from the booklet.

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