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Numerical Data
Centre and Spread
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What suburb of Melbourne was BJ born in?

What is Croydon?

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Used to represent a quantities.

What is numerical data?

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The centre and midpoint of a distribution.

What is the median?

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Used to measure the spread of data distribution around the mean.

What is standard deviation?

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Largest Value - Smallest Value

What is the range?

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The religion of the Dalai Lama.

What is Buhdism

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Used to display frequency distribution of categorial data.

What is a bar chart?

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A graphical representation of a five-number summary.

What is a box plot?

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This percentage of data lies within 1 standard deviation of the mean.

What is 68%?

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This is a standard score for an actual score.

What is the z-score?

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This late actor voiced the character "Genie" in Disney's animated Aladdin.

Who is Robin Williams?

300

Used to display the frequency distribution of a numerical variable.

What is a histogram?

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These are used to give numerical values to special features of data distribution, such as centre and spread.

What are summary statistics?

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Used to measure the spread of data distribution around the median.

What is Interquartile Range (IQR)?

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Calculated using mean + (standard score x standard deviation).

What is the actual score?

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The length of time an African Elephant gestates.

What is 22 months?

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Data values that can be both named and ordered.

What are ordinal variables?

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Summary statistics that divide an ordered dataset into four equal groups.

What are quartiles?

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A rule that describes the percentage of observations that lie within 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations of the mean.

What is the 68-95-99.7% rule?

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Calculated using Q+ (1.5 X IQR).

What is the Upper Fence?

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This planet has 2 moons named Phobos and Deimos.

What is Mars?

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Can be used to transform a skewed histogram to symmetry.

What are logarithms or logs?

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The spread of the middle 50% of data values.

What is the Interquartile Range (IQR)?

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The percentage of observations that lie more than 3 standard deviations below the mean.

What is 0.15%?

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A value that lies outside the upper or lower fence.

What is an outlier?

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