Statistics Flashcards
Types of Measures of Central Tendency
Mean
Median
Mode
Most appearing (Central Tendency)
Mode
Types of mode
Unimodal, Bimodal, Trimodal/Multimodal
One mode
Unimodal
Two mode
Bimodal
Multiple mode
Trimodal
1,1,1,1
How many modes is there in the example
None
1,1,1,1,2
Unimodal
1,1,2,2,3
Bimodal
Most reliable in central tendency
Mean
Average
Mean
Easily affected by outliers
Mean
High scores
Outliers
Most reliable if there is outliers
Median
Middle most score
Median
Measures of Variability/Dispersion
Range
Standard Deviation
Variance
Most crude, simplest measure of variability
Range
How to get the range?
HS-LS=range
Scores are spread, scattered and far from each other
High Standard Deviation
Heterogeneous
Standard deviation (no singularity)
Scores are clustered, near, and homogeneous
Low standard deviation
Which performs better: High or Low standard deviation ?
Low standard deviation (because the scores of the students are near to each other)
Measure of Relative Position
Percentile
Decile
Stanine
Quartile
P20 -percentile. This means:
You are better than 20% of your classmates.