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DESCRIBING DISTRIBUTION Flashcards

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1
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What are the four ways to describe the distribution?

A
  1. Frequency distribution
  2. Frequency polygon
  3. Measures of variability
  4. Standardized scores
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What is Frequency distribution?

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It is tabulation of scores. It is used to show how frequent the scores will fall in range of values. The distribution can also be ascending or descending.

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What is Frequency polygon?

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It describes the skewness, kurtorsis, normal curve and measures of central tendency

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It is the measurement of symmetry of distribution

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Skewness

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What are the two kinds/types of skewness?

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Positive skewness and negative skewness

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It is the right shaped

The mean > median > mode

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Positive skewness

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It is left shaped

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Negative skewness

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It tells about if the tailed is heavy or light

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Kurtosis

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What are the three kinds of kurosis?

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Platykurtic, Leptokurtic and Mesokurtic

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Wide type of kurtosis

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Platykurtic

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Peak type of kurtosis

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Leptokurtic

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It is the normal kurtosis

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Mesokurtic

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What are the three measures of central tendency?

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Mean, median and mode

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It is the average of scores

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Mean

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15
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It is the half score or 50% of the score

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Median

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16
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It is the repetitive scores in a set

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Mode

17
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What are the three measures of variability?

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Range, Quartile Deviation, Standard Deviation

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It is the difference of two extreme Highest minus lowest

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Range

19
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It measures the spread or dispersion

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Quartile Deviation (semi -interquartile range)

20
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Formula of quartile deviation

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Q3 - Q1/2

21
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It is the square root of variance

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Standard deviation

22
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If the SD is O it means

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It same with the mean

23
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If the SD is greater than 0

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It means mas okay

24
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If the SD is less than 0

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It means masyadong malapit sa mean

25
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What are the three types of standardized scores?

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Individual score, Linear standard score and normalized standard scores

26
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It is under the individual score which is the percentage of the below interest score

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Percentile score/rank

27
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What are the two types of linear standard scores?

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Z scores and T scores

28
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It is under the linear standard score which is a deviation of the score from the mean in a standard deviation units

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Z scores

29
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It is normalized standardized scores which has SD of 10 and mean of 50

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T scores

30
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What are the two types of standardized scores?

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Stanine and sten

31
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It is a standard nine which has mean of 5 and SD of 2

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Stanine

32
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It is a score of individual approximate position

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Sten

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