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Central tendency
Statistics ch 3.1
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| If a histogram is skewed right, what does that mean? | Most values are smaller, with a few very large values pulling the tail to the right. | |
| A: It’s the “center” or “typical” value of a dataset—what best represents the whole group. | ||
| What does “spread” mean in a dataset? | The variability of how spread out the values are | |
| What does “center” mean in data? | The typical average value of the data | |
| Mean, median, mode | ||
| What are “outliers”? | Extreme values that are far from most of the data | |
| Mean = ? | A arithmetic average (at all values, divided by number of values) | |
| Median | Middle value when data is in order (or average of two middle values if even number). | |
| Mode | Most frequent value in the dataset. |