Measures of Central Tendency
The term for the middle value in a data set, when ordered from smallest to largest.
What is the Median?
This term is used to describe the difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set.
What is the Range?
This measure in a five figure summary indicates the largest value in a data set.
What is the Maximum?
This data display uses individual dots to represent data points.
What are Dot Plots?
This sport is called the World’s Game.
What is Football (Soccer)?
The measure of central tendency calculated by adding all of the values in a data set and dividing by the number of values.
What is the Mean?
This term is used to describe the difference between the upper quartile and the lower quartile.
What is Interquartile Range (IQR)?
What is the Median?
This data display draws its name from the characteristics of flora.
What is a Stem & Leaf Plot?
This is the highest grossing film of all-time.
What is Avatar?
The term used to describe the most common value in the data set.
What is the Mode?
Calculate the Range for the following data set:
12, 11, 8, 14, 4, 6, 16, 18, 21, 13, 20
17
This data displays utilises the numbers from the five figure summaries.
What are Box & Whisker Plots
This data display can be drawn both vertically or horizontally and only suitable for categorical or discrete data sets.
What are Bar/Column Graphs?
This animal is considered to be the fastest land animal.
What is a Cheetah?
This measure of central tendency is most affected by extremely high or low values.
What is the Mean?
If the IQR of a data set = 32
and Q1 = 12
What is Q3?
Q3 = 44
When calculating outliers, we multiply the IQR by this scale factor.
What is 1.5?
This data display shows the frequency of data points in continuous intervals.
What are Histograms?
This artist holds the title for the best-selling album of all-time with a reported 70 million sales.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This term is used to describe the data set if there two modes.
What is Bimodal?
A small interquartile range indicates this about a data set.
The data is more tightly clustered around the median.
Calculate the five figure summary for the following data set:
4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13
Minimum = 4
Q1 = 5
Q2 = 7
Q3 = 10
Maximum = 13
This data display is used to compare two different sets of data.
What are Scatter Plots?
This country is the only one in the world to have 3 capital cities.
What is South Africa?