Descriptive Statistics

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1. Descriptive Sta- is the term given to the analysis of data that helps de-
tistics scribe, show or summarize data in a meaningful way such
that, for example, patterns might emerge from the data.

2. Arithmetic Mean is found by taking the sum of the data, and then dividing
the sum by the total number of values in the set.

3. Median is the middle number in a sorted, ascending or descend-

ing, list of numbers and can be more descriptive of that
data set than the average.

4. Mode is the most commonly observed value in a set of data.

5. Mode What measure of central tendency should be used for

nominal variables?

6. Median What measure of central tendency should be used for

ordinal variables?

7. Mean What measure of central tendency should be used for ratio

variables that is not skewed?

8. Mean What measure of central tendency should be used for

interval variables that is not skewed?

9. Median What measure of central tendency should be used for ratio

variables that is skewed?

10. Median What measure of central tendency should be used for

interval variables that is skewed?

11. Measures of cen- is a single value that attempts to describe a set of data by
tral tendency identifying the central position within that set of data.

12. Measures of describe how similar or varied the set of observed values
spread are for a particular variable

13. Range the difference between the highest value and the lowest
value in a data set.

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14. Interquartile is a measure of variability, based on dividing a data set into
Range quartiles. Quartiles divide a rank-ordered data set into four
equal parts.

15. Standard Devia- is a statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset

tion relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root
of the variance

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