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6M Unit 1 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Box Plot | a graph that shows how data are distributed by using the median, quartiles, minimum, and maximum |
Categorical Data | data that consists of nonnumeric information |
Distribution | the arrangement of values that show the spread of the data |
Dot Plot | a visual display in which each piece of data is represented by a dot above a number line |
Frequency | the number of times a data value occurs |
Histogram | a bar graph that shows the frequency of data within equal intervals |
Interquartile Range | the difference of the third and first quartiles in a data set, representing the middle half of the data |
Mean | the sum of the items in a set of data divided by the number of items in the set; AKA average |
Median | the middle number or the mean (average) of the two middle numbers in an ordered set of data |
Mode | the number or numbers that occur most frequently in a set of data |
Numerical Data | data in the form of numbers |
Outlier | a value much greater or much less than the others in a data set |
Range | in statistics, the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set |
Statistical Question | a question that has many different, or variable, answers |
Statistics | the branch of mathematics concerned with collecting, organizing, and interpreting data |