Field Work Paper 2 Flashcards

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Interquartile range is useful because

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It reduces the influence that extreme results known as outliners will have on the data set. A low interquartile range suggests that most of the results were very similar

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Median is useful in datasets because

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It helps to understand the spread of the data set. If the mean and median are similar it indicates the data is evenly spread from the lowest to the highest values

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Mode is

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The most common number in a data set

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Interquartile range is calculated by

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Interquartile range = upper quartile - lower quartile

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Median Is

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The middle number in a set

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