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Data Displays and number systems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Data | Information that is gathered by counting measuring measuring Questioning or observing |
| Statistics | The stuby of numerical data collecting organizing and analyzing data to interpret it and answer questions |
| variability | how spread out the values in a set of data are |
| Statistical question | A question that would be answered by collecting or analyzing data |
| Range | the difference between the maximum and the minmum in a dataset the range is a measure of how spread out a distance is |
| Dot plot | a number line long enough to encompass all numbers in a sample, showing a dot over the position corresponding to each number. • if more than one dot falls in the same position, they are stacked up. |
| Maximum | highest or greatest amount or value. |
| Distribution | the distribution of data typically takes into account the range and spread of a data set. • it describes the shape of a data set when displayed on a histogram. |
| mode | a type of average. • in a set of scores, values or numbers the mode is the one that occurs the most. |
| Date Landmark | a notable feature of a data set some landmarks are the mean median mode maximum minimum and range. |
| Minimum | owest or least amount or value. |
| Mediun | a type of average which is the middle value of an ordered set of data values. 2. a line that joins the vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side. |
| Average | An average is a measure used to find the location of the middle (central tendency) of a data set. • Mean, median and mode are all types of averages. • Often the word average refers to the mean. |
| mean | usually called the average and may be called the arithmetic mean. • the mean is the total of all the scores or amounts, divided by, how many scores or amounts there were. |
| Balance point | In everyday mathermter for data the balence point is the mean |
| Measure of center | A values responds what is tyoncl data to |
| outlier |