Descrptive Statistics Flashcards
(8 cards)
1
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What are descriptive statistics ?
A
Measures of central tendency
Measures of dispersion
2
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What are measures of central tendency ?
A
Mean
Median
Mode
3
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What are measures of dispersion ?
A
Range,standard deviation
4
Q
What is the mode ?
A
The most frequent score of the quantitative data set
5
Q
What is the median?
A
Ordering values from the lowest to highest and the number in the middle is the median
6
Q
What is the mean?
A
Add all scores and divide by the number of scores
7
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What is the range?
A
Take the smallest value and take away from the highest
8
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What is standard deviation?
A
The smaller the standard deviation more clustered(less spread out) the values are around the mean
