Math Flashcards
What is statistics?
Solving problems and answering questions by collecting and analysing data
What is a mean?
When you add the numbers up and divide by how many there are
What is mode?
The most common number
What is median?
The middle value
Describe measures of spread:
The middle 50% is the median, the bottom 25% is the lower quartile, and the top 25% is the top quartile.
What are the 3 distributions?
Symmetrical, positively skewed, negatively skewed
What is symmetrical skewed?
When the mean, mode, and median are all in the middle
What is negatively skewed?
Skewed to the left (not dots on left side)
What is Positively skewed?
Skewed to the right (no dots on right side)
What is correlation?
How positive or negative the graph is or non-linear
How do you know what correlation the graph is?
If its going uphill its positive and downhill is negative. If the dots are all together its perfect, if its kinda spread out its strong, if they are spread out but you can still see if its positive or negative then its moderate
How do you know if its non-linear or no correlation?
Non-linear is if its going both uphill and down hill, no correlation is if you cant tell anything and the dots are spread out everywhere
What does PPDAC mean?
problem, plan, data, analysis, conclusion
What is problem?
what data to collect, who its from, and why its important
What is plan?
How you gather the data
What is data?
How it is organised and managed
what is analysis?
exploring the data and reasoning with it
what is conclusion?
answering the question and providing reasons
What is probability?
The likelihood of an event occurring
What are the two ways for working out probability?
Experiments and theory
What is frequency?
The number of times a value occurs.
What is the difference between bar graphs and histograms?
Bar graphs have gaps between their bars
How do you know if you are meant to use a bar graph or histogram?
You use a histogram if the data is continuous
What is continuous data?
Data that keeps going on, e.g heights