Normal Distribution
Describing Distributions
Data Transformations
The Five Number Summary
Data Types
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What is a normal distribution?

A symmetric, bell-shaped distribution.

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What are the key components of describing a distribution?

Shapes, outlier, center, spread

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Adding 10 to every value affects which measures of center?

Mean and Median

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What numbers are included in the five number summary?

Minimum, Q1, Median, Q3, and Maximum

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Eye color is what type of data?

Categorical data.

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What is the mean?

The mean is the average of all data points.

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What is a unimodal?

A graph that has one peak.

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What doesn’t double when you multiply all data values by 2?

Shape of distribution, z-scores and variance

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What is the range between Q1 and Q3?

The IQR.

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Height measured in inches is an example of what type of data?

Quantitative data

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What is standard deviation?

Standard deviation is a value that tells you how spread out the numbers in the data set are from the mean.

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What is bimodal?

A graph that has two peaks.

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Adding a constant to every value changes everything except the…

Standard Deviation

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How do you find the range in a data set?

You subtract the maximum and minimum

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What type of graphs can be used for quantitative data?

Dot-plots, histograms, box plots and steam-and-leaf plots

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How do you interpret a positive z-score or a negative z-score?

A ________ of ________ is ____ standard deviations above the mean

A ________ of ________ is ____ standard deviations below the mean

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What happens if too much data on the graph is positive values?

The data becomes skewed to the right.

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What happens when you multiply every value by 5?

The standard deviation and the mean change everything else stays the same.

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What is the IQR rule used for and what are the formulas?

The IQR rule is used for outliers.

Q1-1.5(IQR) for low outliers

Q3+1.5(IQR) for high outliers

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What type of graphs are used for categorical data?

Mosaic plots, side-by-side graph, and segmented bar graph

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What is the empirical rule?

The empirical rule dictates how data clusters around the mean in a perfectly normal distribution. 

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What types of graphs can be used for quantitative data?


Histograms, dotplots, stemplots, and boxplots.


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Compare the effects of adding a constant to all values versus multiplying all values by a constant.

Adding a number moves all the data up or down. Multiplying by a number stretches or shrinks the data.


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How do you get the five number summary on a calculator?

Stat -> #1 -> edit (enter data) -> Stat -> calc -> #1: one variable stats -> calculate -> enter -> scroll to the bottom for the five number summary

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What is a discret variable?

A variable that can only take specific countable values, such as the number of students in a class.