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Question 1

What is the mode?

Answer 1

The most common, or the peaks of a histogram

Question 2

When do we often use mode

Answer 2

With categorical variables, for instance, to describe the average teenagers preference, we often speak of what “most” students choose, which is the mode. It also tells the number of bumps in a histogram for quantitative data( unimodal, bimodal, etc)

Question 3

How are mean, median and mode positioned in a skewed left distribution(negatively skewed)

Answer 3

Goes in that order from left to right. Mean-median-mode

Question 4

How are mean, median and mode positioned in a skewed right distribution(positively skewed)

Answer 4

Goes in that order.. Mode-median-mean

Question 5

Who chases the tail

Answer 5

The mean chases the tail, the mean chases the tail, high-ho the derry-oh the mean chases the tail… and outliers

Question 6

What is the median?

Answer 6

The middle most number(always in the (n+1)/2 position), it splits area in half