Inferential Statistics Ch. 2 Flashcards
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What are three measures of central tendency?
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- Mean
- Mode
- Median
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Central Tendency
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A group of scores (a distribution) refers to the middle of the group of scores.
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Mean
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Arithmetic average of a group of scores; synod scores divided by the number of scores.
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Mode
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Value with the greatest frequency
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Median
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Middle score when all the scores in a distribution are arranged from lowest to highest.
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Outlier
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Score with an extreme value (very high or very low) in relation to the other scores.
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Variance
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Measure of how spread out a set of scores are.
An average of the squared deviation from the mean.
