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Describe, in your own words, the following terms and give an example of those terms marked by asterisks. Your examples are NOT to be those given in the lecture notes, or provided in the textbook.

a. Mean*
b. Median*
c. Mode*
d. Range*
e. Standard deviation*
f. Variance
g. Percentile*
h. Standard score*
i. Symmetrical distribution*
j. Skewed distribution
k. Linear correlation*
l. Linear regression

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