Statistics Vocabulary

3. summary minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values
8. the typical distance of the data values from the mean
14. a way to describe a set of data in which most of the values are clustered in the middle and fewer values are clustered in the tails
15. the average of the data values
16. the science of collecting, organizing, and analyzing data
18. data that are based on "qualities" such as color, taste, or texture rather than measurements
19. a bar-style data display showing the frequency of data measured over intervals, rather than displaying each individual data value

1. how often data value(s) occur or the "count" of the data values
2. the number in the middle when the data in a set are ordered from least to greatest
4. states that for a normal distribution, nearly all of the data will fall within three standard deviations of the mean (68% within one standard deviation, 95% within two, and 99.7% within three)
5. the middle 50% of the data set; includes the data points that lie between the first quartile and the third quartile; also known as IQR
6. of center the measure of the value at the center or middle of a data set that can be the mean, median or mode
7. a box and whisker diagram display the five-number summary for a data set
9. data that contains a finite number of possible values
10. an extreme value in a data set that is very distant from the others
11. a graphical representation where each data value is represented with a dot above a number line
12. data that can be measured and recorded numerically
13. the most frequently occurring value(s) in a data set
17. data that can take almost any numeric value over a continuous range