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segrsyd

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on: Jul 24, 2018

What does it mean to say that a particular value of x has a z score of -1.94?

Question 2

What does it mean to say that x = 163 has a standard score of +1.60?

Jbrasil

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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018

Answer to Question 1

It means that value of x is 1.94 standard deviations below the mean.

Answer to Question 2

It means that x = 163 is 1.60 standard deviations above the mean.

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