Samples and Populations
Displaying Distributions
Describing Distributions
5-number summary
Vocabulary
100

What is the speed of every 5th car passing a police speed trap?

What is a sample?

100

The name of this type of graph.

What is a dotplot?

100

This is the middle number of an ordered data set

What is the median?

100

minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, maximum

What is the 5-number summary?

100

This display shows the entire group of cases as a circle.

What is a pie chart?

200

What is the age of each state governor?

What is population?

200

The name of this type of graph.

What is a bar chart?

200

This measures the data value that is most common.

What is mode?

200

The median of this dataset:

7, 5, 3, 7

What is 6?

200

A bar chart displays this kind of variable.

What is a Categorical Variable?

300

500 students from a university with 2000 students were surveyed.

What is a sample?

300

You should not forget to include this when creating a stem plot.

What is a key?

300

The range for 1.5, 0.25, 3, 2.7, 1.1, 4.85, 2.75, 

What is 4.6?

300

The percentage of data between Q1 and Q2

What is 50%?

300

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

What is frequency?

400

The average salary of all employees at a company.

What is population

400

Three graphical displays that can be used for quantitative data.

What is a histogram, stemplot, and dotplot? (boxplot also accepted)

400

A list of measures of spread (up to 3).

What are standard deviation, range, and IQR?

400

Use this measure of center if there are no outliers and no strong skewness.

What is the mean?

400

A data value that is far from most of the data

What is an outlier?

500

The median income of home owners in Ohio with mortgages

What is population

500

The kind of table this is.

What is a relative frequency table?

500

The shape of this distribution.

What is right-skewed (skewed to the right)?

500

The IQR of this (summarized) data:

min: 100

Q1: 114

median: 120

Q3: 134

max: 180

What is 20?

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?