Statistics YMS Ch. 1.2 vocab
Review of vocabulary words from YMS Ch. 1.2
Terms
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- mean
- average value of the center of a collection of data
- boxplots
- graph based on five-number summary
- standard deviation
- measures the spread of data by looking at how far the observations are from the mean
- spread
- a description of the distribution of a collection of data
- outlier
- an extreme observation
- resistant
- not influenced by extreme observations
- first quartile
- median of lower half of a collection of data
- median
- middle value of the center of a collection of data
- third quartile
- median of the upper half of a collection of data
- skewness
- not a symmetrical distribution of data
- largest
- maximum value of observations
- five-number summary
- description of data in terms of its median, quartiles, and lowest & highest values
- interquartile range
- distance between the first and third quartiles
- smallest
- minimum value of observations
- quartiles
- values that separate a colection of data into four equall parts
- center
- a collection of data's mean or median
- variance
- average of the squares of the deviations of data from its mean