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Data and Graphing 3
Vocabulary for all of Chapter 2
Question | Answer |
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the general direction of data in a line graph | Trend |
the graph that is best to show a change in data over time | Line Graph |
the difference between values or numbers on a scale; skip counting | Interval |
a piece of data that is far away from the rest of the data | Outlier |
a method to organize how many times each piece of data occurs | Frequency Table |
the set of all possible values of a given measurement, including the least and greatest numbers in the set | Scale |
the horizontal or vertical line that forms the border of the graph | Axis |
Information | Data |
collecting, organizing, analyzing, and presenting data | Statistics |
comparing data to find meaning | Analysis |
the graph that is best to show the frequency of different sources of data | Bar Graph |
The display that is good for showing the spread of data | Line plot |
Usually represents the ones digit in the stem-and-leaf plot | The Leaf |
Usually represents the tens digit in the stem-and-leaf plot | The Stem |
The display that is good for showing a large set of data | Stem-and-leaf plot |
the middle of a set of data found by taking the sum of a set of data and dividing it by the number of pieces of data | Mean |
the middle number of a set of data when the data are arranged in order from least to greatest | Median |
the number(s) that appear most often | Mode |
the common term for measures of central tendency; also used for the mean | Average |
tells how spread out the data is by finding the difference between the minimum and maximum values in the set | Range |
When one number is used to represent a set of numbers | Measure of Central Tendency |
the set of positive whole numbers, their opposites and zero | Integer |
numbers whose value are greater than zero | Positive Numbers |
numbers whose values are less than zero | Negative Numbers |
numbers that are the same distance from zero on a number line | Opposites |