Displaying Data
This display of a variable tells us what values the variable takes and how often it takes each value.
What is a distribution?
Type of variable that takes number values.
What is a quantitative varible?
The midpoint of a distribution.
What is the median?
The distance between Q3 and Q1.
What is the IQR (Interquartile Range)?
What is the five number summary?
Shows the number of individuals having each value.
What is a frequency table?
An object described in a set of data.
What is an individual?
The average of all individual data values.
What is the mean?
The distance between the minimum and maximum values.
What is the range?
This date is Ms. Tenace's birthday.
What is August 13th?
Shows the proportion or percentage of individuals having each value.
What is a relative frequency table?
The typical distance from the mean.
What is standard deviation?
This measure of center is not affected much by outliers.
What is the median?
This measure of spread is not resistant to outliers.
What is standard deviation?
A person's telephone number is an example of this type of variable.
What is categorical?
Displays the distribution of one categorical variable in each of two or more groups.
What is a side-by-side bar graph?
An observation that falls outside the overall pattern.
What is an outlier?
A distribution where the median is greater than the mean has this shape.
What is left skewed?
A distribution where the IQR and standard deviation are roughly equal has this shape.
What is roughly symmetric?
This data display highlights the five number summary.
What are box plots?
Shows each interval as a bar, which display the frequency or relative frequency within each interval.
What is a histogram?
The numbers on the right side of a stem plot.
What are leaves?
The two letters/symbols we use to notate the mean?
What are x-bar and mu?
The 1.5 x IQR Rule tests for this.
What are outliers?
This is the name of the theatre Ms. Tenace performs at.
What is the Bridge Improv Theatre?