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What is variability?

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Differences? how things differ. There is variability everywhere. We all look different, act different, have different preferences? Statisticians look at these differences.

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What is data?

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Any collected information. Generally each little measurement? Like, if it is a survey about liking porridge? the data might be ?yes, yes, no, yes, yes? if it is the number of saltines someone can eat in 30 seconds, the data might be ?3, 1, 2, 1, 4,3 , 3, 4?

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What is a population?

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the group you’re interested in. Sometimes it?s big, like “all teenagers in the US” other times it is small, like “all AP Stats students in my school”

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What is a sample?

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A subset of a population, often taken to make inferences about the population. We calculate statistics from samples.

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Compare population to sample

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populations are generally large, and samples are small subsets of these population. We take samples to make inferences about populations. We use statistics to estimate parameters.

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Compare data to statistics

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Data is each little bit of information collected from the subjects?. They are the INDIVIDUAL little things we collect? we summarize them by, for example, finding the mean of a group of data. If it is a sample, then we call that mean a “statistic” if we have data from each member of population, then that mean is called a “parameter”

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Compare data to parameters

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Data is each little bit of information collected from the subjects?. They are the INDIVIDUAL little things we collect? we summarize them by, for example, finding the mean of a group of data. If it is a sample, then we call that mean a “statistic” if we have data from each member of population, then that mean is called a “parameter”

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What is a parameter?

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A numerical summary of a population. Like a mean, median, range? of a population

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What is a statistic?

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A numerical summary of a sample. Like a mean, median, range? of a sample.

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We are curious about the average wait time at a Dunkin Donuts drive through in your neighborhood. You randomly sample cars one afternoon and find the average wait time is 3.2 minutes. What i

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The parameter is the true average wait time at that Dunkin Donuts. This is a number you don’t have and will never know. The statistic is “3.2 minutes.” It is the average of the data you collected. The parameter of interest is the same thing as the population parameter. In this case, it is the true average wait time of all cars. The data is the wait time of each individual car, so that would be like “3.8 min, 2.2 min, .8 min, 3 min”. You take that data and find the average, that average is called a “statistic,” and you use that to make an inference about the true parameter.

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Compare DATA-STATISTIC-PARAMETER using categorical example

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Data are individual measures? like meal preference: ?taco, taco, pasta, taco, burger, burger, taco?? Statistics and Parameters are summaries. A statistic would be ?42% of sample preferred tacos? and a parameter would be ?42% of population preferred tacos.?

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Compare DATA-STATISTIC-PARAMETER using quantitative example

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Data are individual measures, like how long a person can hold their breath: ?45 sec, 64 sec, 32 sec, 68 sec.? That is the raw data. Statistics and parameters are summaries like ?the average breath holding time in the sample was 52.4 seconds? and a parameter would be ?the average breath holding time in the population was 52.4 seconds?

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What is a census?

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Like a sample of the entire population, you get information from every member of the population

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Does a census make sense?

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A census is ok for small populations (like Mr. Nystrom’s students) but impossible if you want to survey “all US teens”

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What is the difference between a parameter and a statistic?

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BOTH ARE A SINGLE NUMBER SUMMARIZING A LARGER GROUP OF NUMBERS?. But pppp parameters come from pppp populations? sss statistics come from ssss samples.

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If I take a random sample 20 hamburgers from FIVE GUYS and count the number of pickles on a bunch of them? and the average number of pickles was 9.5, then 9.5 is considered a _______?

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statistic. (t is a summary of a sample.)

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If I take a random sample of 20 hamburgers from FIVE GUYS and count the number of pickles on a bunch of them? and I do this because I want to know the true average number of pickles on a bun

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parameter, a one number summary of the population. The truth. AKA the parameter of interest.

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Use the following words in one sentence: population, parameter, census, sample, data, statistics, inference, population of interest.

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I was curious about a population parameter, but a census was too costly so I decided to choose a sample, collect some data, calculate a statistic and use that statistic to make an inference about the population parameter (aka the parameter of interest).

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If you are tasting soup.. Then the flavor of each individual thing in the spoon is the ________, the entire spoon is a ______.. The flavor of all of that stuff together is like the _____ and

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If you are tasting soup. Then the flavor of each individual thing in the spoon is DATA, the entire spoon is a SAMPLE. The flavor of all of that stuff together is like the STATISTIC, and you use that to MAKE AN INFERENCE about the flavor of the entire pot of soup, which would be the PARAMETER. Notice you are interested in the parameter to begin with… that is why you took a sample.

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What are random variables?

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If you randomly choose people from a list, then their hair color, height, weight and any other data collected from them can be considered random variables.

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What is the difference between quantitative and categorical variables?

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Quantitative variables are numerical measures, like height and IQ. Categorical are categories, like eye color and music preference

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What is the difference between quantitative and categorical data?

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The data is the actual gathered measurements. So, if it is eye color, then the data would look like this “blue, brown, brown, brown, blue, green, blue, brown? etc.” The data from categorical variables are usually words, often it is simpy “YES, YES, YES, NO, YES, NO” If it was weight, then the data would be quantitative like “125, 155, 223, 178, 222, etc..” The data from quantitative variables are numbers.

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What is the difference between discrete and continuous variables?

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Discrete can be counted, like “number of cars sold” they are generally integers (you wouldn’t sell 9.3 cars), while continuous would be something like weight of a mouse? 4.344 oz.

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What is a quantitative variable?

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Quantitative variables are numeric like: Height, age, number of cars sold, SAT score

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What is a categorical variable?
Qualitative variables are like categories: Blonde, Listens to Hip Hop, Female, yes, no? etc.
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What is quantitative data?
The actual numbers gathered from each subject. 211 pounds. 67 beats per minute.
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What is categorical data?
The actual individual category from a subject, like "blue" or "female" or "sophomore"
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What is a random sample?
When you choose a sample by rolling dice, choosing names from a hat, or other REAL RANDOMLY generated sample. Humans can't really do this well without the help of a calculator, cards, dice, or slips of paper.
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What is frequency?
How often something comes up
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What is a frequency distribution?
A table, or a chart, that shows how often certain values or categories occur in a data set.
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What is meant by relative frequency?
The PERCENT of time something comes up (frequency/total)
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How do you find relative frequency?
just divide frequency by TOTAL.
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What is meant by cumulative frequency?
ADD up the frequencies as you go. Suppose you are selling 25 pieces of candy. You sell 10 the first hour, 5 the second, 3 the third and 7 in the last hour, the cumulative frequency would be 10, 15, 18, 25
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What is the difference between a bar chart and a histogram
bar charts are for categorical data (bars don't touch) and histograms are for quantitative data (bars touch)
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What is the mean?
the old average we used to calculate. It is the balancing point of the histogram
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What is the difference between a population mean and a sample mean?
population mean is the mean of a population, it is a parameter, sample mean is a mean of a sample, so it is a statistic. We use sample statistics to make inferences about population parameters.
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What symbols do we use for population mean and sample mean?
Mu for population mean, xbar for sample mean.
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How can you think about the mean and median to remember the difference when looking at a histogram?
mean is balancing point of histogram, median splits the area of the histogram in half.
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What is the median?
the middlest number, it splits area in half (always in the POSITION (n+1)/2 )
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What is the mode?
the most common, or the peaks of a histogram. We often use mode with categorical data
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Why don't we always use the mean, we've been calculating it all of our life ?
It is not RESILIENT, it is impacted by skewness and outliers
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When we say the average teenager are we talking about mean
It depends, if we are talking height, it might be the mean, if we are talking about parental income, we'd probably use the median, if we were talking about music preference, we'd probably use the mode to talk about the average teenager.
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Q: How can you get a parameter? A: By taking a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Census
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When drawing a graph or chart, what do you have to remember to do?
LABEL AXES, make a KEY(if needed ) AND GIVE IT A NAME!!! "Figure 1: Age and Food Preference"
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What is the IQR?
Interquartile range… a measure of spread. Q3-Q1. The distance from Q1 to Q3. The regular range is Hi-Lo, this is the inner range, the interquartile range.
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What is a CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY GRAPH?
An OGIVE. It shows the added up totals as you go left to right.
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What is a "percentile?"
It tells you the percent of data at or BELOW a certain value
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where are the "outlier fences?"
1.5 IQR above Q3 and 1.5 IQR below Q1. Just a rule of thumb.
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What is the five number summary?
min, Q1 , Q2(median), Q3 and max
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How do you find Q1 and Q3?
Q1 is the median of the bottom half and Q3 is the median of the upper half (they are the 25th and 75th percentiles)
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What percentile is Q3?
75th
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How do you describe distributions (histograms)?
Shape-Outliers-Center-Spread-SOCS
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How can you describe spread?
range, IQR, stand dev, variance, or simply say: From here, to about here
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How can you describe shape?
TWO THINGS: modes and symmetry.unimodal, bimodal, multimodal AND uniform, symmetric, skewed
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How do you describe CENTER for bimodal or multimodal?
talk about the modes (the lumps, the clusters)
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How do you describe CENTER for skewed or distributions with outliers?
use the MEDIAN
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How do you describe CENTER for unimodal and symetric distributions?
use the MEAN
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How do you descrive SPREAD for unimodal and symmetric distributions?
use the standard deviation
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How do you describe SPREAD for skewed distributions (or distributions with outliers?)
Use the IQR
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How do you describe SPREAD for bimodal or multimodal?
talk about the outer edges of the clusters "from here to here" or use the IQR.
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What does SOCS stand for?
Gaps Shape Outliers Center Spread (put on your gsocs when comparing distributions) be sure to talk about each one clearly (make a list)
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Give a quick example of associated variables
A higher percentage of boys play video games than girls so we say "gender and video game playing are associated" or "gender and video game playing are not independent"
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what is a conditional distribution?
A distribution with a condition (within the table), along only one row or one column… NOT IN THE MARGINS. You are given a condition.. Then read along that row or column.
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What percent of the data is above Q3?
25%
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What percent of the data is between Q1 and Q3?
the middle 50%. That is the IQR
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What is Q2 also known as?
the median
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What percent of the data is below Q2?
50%
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What is a standard deviation?
average (typical) distance to the mean. It is how far you expect a random value to be away from the middle.
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What is a Z score?
The number of standard deviaiton away from the mean
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For information purposes, which gives LEAST… stem-leaf, histogram or box-whisker?
Box/Whisker, BE CAREFUL. you really don't know how things are distributed. The box and whisker give a very GENERAL look.
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What are the percentiles for Q1, med, and Q3?
25, 50 and 75
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How do students often mix up IQR and St. Dev
They INCORRECTLY think that Q1 is 1sd below the mean and Q3 is 1sd above the mean. THIS IS NOT TRUE!!! Q1 is only .67 sd above the mean and Q2 is .67 below
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Does the IQR capture 68% of the data?
NO. it catches the middle 50%.
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What percentile is the median (aka Q2)?
50th
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What percent of the data is between Q1 and Q3?
50%
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If the mean is above the median, the distribution may be
skewed right... the mean follows the tail
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Another name for "skewed right" is
positively skewed
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How many SD wide is the IQR in a normal distribution?
NOT 2!!!! Think about it. The middle 68% is 2 sd wide, since the IQR is only the middlest 50% it must be less than 2. try [invnorm(.75)] x2. You find that it is only 1.35 SD wide if the distribution is nearly normal.
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What symbols do we use for population mean and sample mean?
Mu for population mean, xbar for sample mean.
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What symbols do we use for population standard deviation and sample standard deviation?
Sigma for population and s for sample.
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What percent of the data is above Q3?
25%
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What percent of the data is below the median?
50%
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What is the difference between categorical VARIABLES and categorical DATA?
The Variable is the overall category. Like "EYE COLOR". The data is the actual measurement from the subjects. Like "blue, brown, blue"
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Can numbers be CATEGORICAL?
sure. Zip codes, sports jersey numbers, telephone numbers, social security nunmbers, area codes… these are categorical.
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what is the emperical rule?
mean 68-95-99.7 yeah!
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are any populations actually normal?
no, nothing is normal, just normalish. The only normal thing is the model we use.
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If the distribution is skewed (or outliers/not symmetric) what would you use for center and spread statistics?
Median (center) and IQR (spread)
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What is the variance?
The average squared distance to the mean. Or the SD2 (It is the SD before you take the square root, so it is the stuff under the radical in the formula)
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What percentile is Q1?
25th
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Why are there different standard deviation formulas for population and sample? Arent they the same thing?
Both equations are actually doing the same thing. They both attempt to calculate the true population proportion. When you have all of the data from the population you just divide by n and get the actual SD. BUT If you only have a sample then you are using that to make a guess (inference) at what the population standard deviation is.. What happens is that samples tend to have less spread so their SD underestimates the population, BUT, when you divide by n-1 instead of n, It gives you a better estimate of what the population standard deviation is.
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Give a simple example showing that adding a constant doesn't change the spread, but changes the center. (this always happens)
Data set: 1,2,3,4,5 Spread (range):4, Center: 3 add three and get new data set: 3,4,5,6,7 spread:4 Center: 5 (center went up, spread stayed the same). The IQR and SD will stay the same, but median and mean go up 3. Called shifting, or sliding the data.
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what happens if you multiply all of a data set by a constant? Think of an example
it is scaled Both center and spread are impacted. Mean/ median/ stand dev/ iqr/ quartiles all multiplied by that constant. Center, spread and all individual values are changed. Consider 1,2,3,4,5 mean of 3 and range of 4. Now multiply by 3: 3,6,9,12,15 and you get a mean of 9 and a range of 12... both multiplied by three.
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what happens if you ADD a constant to each value in a data set?
it is SHIFTED only. Does not impact spread. This effects all of the data values and measures of center (mean, med) and quartiles, deciles, etc, IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE SPREAD! (IQR, St Dev, Range all stay the SAME).
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what is a clear example of the medians resiliance and when you would use the median instead of the mean?
(change just the top value). Imagine if we asked eight people how much money they had in their wallet. We found they had {1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 8, 8, 9}. The mean of this set is 5, and the median is also 5. You might say "the average person in this group had 5 bucks." But imagine the same group the next week, but one of them just got back from the casino and the dist was (1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 8, 8, 9000}, in this case, the median would still be 5, but the mean goes up to over 1000. Which number better describes the amount of money the average person in the group this time? 5 bucks or 1000 bucks? I think 5 is a better description of the average person in this group and the 9000 is simply an outlier.
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What does SHIFT and SCALE mean?
Shift is when you add or subtract, scale is when you multiply
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Think of the minimum value, the mean and the standard deviation, what is impacted by shifting (adding a constant)?
adding a value shifts the entire histogram to the right, so the min and the mean will increase by that amount, BUT THE SD WILL NOT CHANGE.
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Think of the minimum value, the median and the IQR, which is impacted by shifting (adding a constant)?
adding a value shifts the entire histogram to the right, so the min and the median will increase by that amount, BUT THE IQR WILL NOT CHANGE.
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If a distribution is skewed right, what will be greater, the mean or median? WHY?
Mean. The mean moves further to the right to keep balance.
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How does multiplying by a constant impact the summary statistics of a data set? (or random variable)
It is SCALED. Both center and spread are effected. They all (mean, median, IQR, SD, range) get multiplied by three. (BE CAREFUL, remember the variance is the SD squared, so the variance gets multiplied by 9).
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Which is more sensitive to outliers and skewed? Mean, median. Sd or IQR?
Mean and SD are most influenced by outliers. median and IQR are RESISTANT, RESILIENT, ROBUST!!
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are there any normal samples?
no, nothing is normal, just normalish. The only normal thing is the model we use.
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Which calculator function gives you a z score?
invnorm(%ile)
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which calculator function gives you a percent?
normcdf(Z left, Z right)

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