measures of central tendency

Question 1

summary statistic that represents the center point or typical value of a dataset

Answer 1

measures of central tendency

Question 2

one of the three statistics indicating average or middlemost score between the extreme scores in a distribution

Answer 2

measures of central tendency

Question 3

three most often used measures of central tendency

Answer 3

mean, median, mode

Question 4

statistic at the ratio level of measurement, average, equal to the sum of the observations divided by number of observations

Answer 4

arithmetic mean

Question 5

mean is denoted by the symbol

Answer 5

x bar

Question 6

takes into the account of order of scores and is ordinal in nature, middle value

Answer 6

median

Question 7

nominal in nature, most frequently occurring score

Answer 7

mode

Question 8

one mode

Answer 8

unimodal

Question 9

two modes

Answer 9

bimodal

Question 10

3 or more modes

Answer 10

multimodal

Question 11

mean is lower than the median, mode > median > mean

Answer 11

negatively skewed (left-skewed)

Question 12

mean is higher than the median, mode < median < mean

Answer 12

positively skewed, right-skewed