descriptive stats Flashcards
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descriptive stats
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summarising data to provide an overview
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measures of central tendency
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calculate the typical scores for a set of data
3
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mode
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most common number in a set of data
4
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median
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mid point in ordinal data
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mean
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average in a set of data
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variance
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how spread out the data is from the mean
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range
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measure of disprersion