CENTRAL TENDENCY Flashcards
is the arithmetic average of a set
of observations.
mean or arithmetic mean
MEAN UNGROUPED DATA FORMULA
MEAN GROUPED DATA FORMULA
is single value from the data set that measures the central item in the data.
Median
MEDIAN GROUPED DATA FORMULA
to find the median of a data set, first arrange the date in either ascending or descending order. If the data has odd numbered items, the median is middle item of the
data. However, if it has even number of items, the median is the average of the two middle items.
MEDIAN UNGROUPED DATA
is the most often repeated value or the value with the highest
frequency in the data set.
MODE
the mode is easily identified by merely locating or identifying the data or item which occurs most frequently.
MODE UNGROUPED DATA
MODE GROUP DATA FORMULA
values which divided a set of data into equal parts are called
quantiles.
QUANTILES
which divide the distribution into four parts.
QUARTILES
which divide the distribution into 10 parts.
DECILES
which divide the distribution into 100 parts.
PERCENTILES