Descriptive Stats Flashcards
What is the advantage of the mean
Most representative of all measures
What is the advantage of the median
Not distorted by extreme scores
What is the advantage of the mode
Nominal data
Not distorted by extreme scores
What is the disadvantage of the mean
Most sensitive
Only used with ordinal or interval data
What is the disadvantage of the median
Doesn’t reflect all scores
What is the disadvantage of the mode
There can be more than one mode
What are descriptive stats
It is a summary of quantitative data, it helps understanding and saves time.
What is the measure of cental tendency
Tells us the most typical value in a data set.
What is the range
Sub low from high then add one.
What is standard deviation
It is a form of informative measure, the larger the number is the more disperion of results
What is the measure of dispersion
Spread of data around a central value.
