Graphs
Vocabulary
Interpretations
Comparing Distributions
Normal Distribution
100

This graph is used to display frequencies of quantitative data. 

What is a histogram?

100

An attribute than can take different values for different individuals

What is a variable?

100

What four things do we need to address when comparing distributions?

What is a center, shape, variability, outliers/unusual features?

100

What is the shape of a Normal distribution?

What is symmetric (or bell curved)?

200

Used to display frequencies of categorical data.

What is bar chart?

200

This is the statistical term for the number of times an event occurs.

What is frequency?

200

The typical distance from the mean

What is standard deviation?

200

What three major ways can we describe the shape of a distribution?


What is a fourth?!

What is skewed left, skewed right, and approximately symmetric?


Bimodal

200

The table of z-scores gives us the area to the ____ of a specific value.

What is left?

300

This graph is similar to a side-by-side bar graph, but the bar are stacked on top of each other.

What is segmented bar graph?

300

The distance between the maximum and minimum in a set of data.

What is range?

300

The number of standard deviations above or below the mean a data point is.

What is z-score?

300

To compare center between histograms, what measure would we look at?

What is median?

300

What percent of data is found within one standard deviation of the mean of a Normal distribution?

What is 68%?

400

You use a five number summary to create this type of graph.

What is box plot?

400

The difference between the third and first quartile?

What is interquartile range?

400

The percent of individuals below a given value.

What is percentile?

400

To compare variability between box plots, what would we look at?

What is IQR or range?

400

What calculator function will help us with normal distribution calculations?

What is normalcdf(?



500

This graph always has a key telling us what numbers are in the graph. For example, 2|5 = 2.5 centimeters.

What is stemplot?

500

This table list the categories in a categorical variable and give the percentage of the observations for each category.

What is a Relative Frequency Table?

500

How to identify an outlier

What is 1.5 x IQR rule?

500

In addition to using comparing words and specific numbers, what do we need to make sure to have in our answer when comparing distributions?

What is context?

500

What percent of data is between mean+2SD and mean+3SD in a Normal distribution?

What is 2.35%?