Grade 6 Module 6 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The number of data values included in each interval displayed in a frequency table or histogram
  2. 8. aka IQR; A measure of variability for skewed data distributions that describes how spread out the middle 50 percent of the data are; subtract the lower quartile from the upper quartile
  3. 10. The average value of a group of numbers; put the numbers in order from least to greatest, add up the values, and divide by how many numbers are in the set.
  4. 13. A set of numbers that lie between two specific values and include the lower of the two values but not the upper one. The upper value belongs to the next interval
  5. 14. A question that can be answered by collecting data and that anticipates variability in the data collected; you can have different correct answers to this question
  6. 15. aka MAD; the average of the distance each value is from the mean of the data set
Down
  1. 1. The median of the top half of the values in a data set
  2. 2. The number of data values included in each interval divided by the total number of values in the data set
  3. 4. The distance between a value from the data set and the mean of the data set.
  4. 5. The value that occurs most often in a data set
  5. 6. aka Q1; The median of the bottom half of the values in a data set
  6. 7. Occurs when the observations in a data set are not all the same
  7. 9. Data that can be represented as numbers (i.e. age or number of pencils)
  8. 10. The number in the exact middle of a data set after the numbers are in order from least to greatest
  9. 11. A collection of numbers, values, or categorical data often gathered to answer a particular statistical question
  10. 12. Data that can be represented as a group or category (i.e. hair color or flavor of ice cream)