measures of location for discreet data

Question 1

discreet data

Answer 1

numerical data, where the data can only take certain, exact values
it can be counted e.g. shoe size

Question 2

what do measures of location act as?

Answer 2

A focus for a set of data because a measure of location is a single value which represents the whole data set

Question 3

name 3 example of measures of location for a data set

Answer 3

mean, median and mode

Question 4

mode

Answer 4

the valuable of a variable which occurs most frequently

Question 5

median

Answer 5

the middles value once the data has been written in order of size from the smallest to the biggest number

Question 6

mean

Answer 6

the sum of all the data divided by how many pieces of data there are

Question 7

what are the two types of mean?

Answer 7

population mean

sample mean

Question 8

what do you do to discreet data when calculating quartiles and quantiles?

Answer 8

apply the rounding rules
if a whole number, add half
if not a whole number, round up to the next whole number