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6M Unit 3 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |