Module 16 Flashcards
1
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box plot
A
A graph that shows how data are distributed by using the median, quartiles, least value, and greatest value; also called a box-and-whisker plot
2
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interquartile range (IQR)
A
The difference of the third (upper) and first (lower) quartiles in a data set, representing the middle half of the data
3
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lower quartile
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The median of the lower half of the data
4
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upper quartile
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The median of the upper half of the data
5
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mean absolute deviation (MAD)
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The mean distance between each data value and the mean of the data set
6
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measure of variability
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A single value used to describe how the values in a data set are spread out
7
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range
A
In statistics, the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set
