Flashcards in quantitative ability 3 Deck (11)
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central tendency
a measure of the "middle" of a set or sample of numbers
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mean
the average of a set or sample of numbers (or terms)
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median
depending on the number of terms in a set or sample, this can be the middle number (for a set with an odd number of numbers) or the average of the two middle numbers (for a set with an even number of numbers)
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mode
the most frequent term in a set or sample of numbers
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variance
this measures how much the square of the difference of the data and the mean is
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standard deviation
the positive square root of the variance
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experiment
a situatin involving chance or probability that leads to results called outcomes
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outcome
the result of a single trial of an experiment
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event
a set of one or more outcomes of an experiment
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elementary event
the event which is a set consisting of one outcome
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