Financial and Statistical Terms

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A person's income before all taxes are deducted.

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Gross Income

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The amount of income left after taxes are deducted; used for two types of expenses: essential expenses and discretionary expenses.

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Disposable Income

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An expense that cannot be eliminated from a person’s day-to-day life; it might include rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, medical expenses, food, and loan payments.

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Essential Expense

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Costs for goods or services that are non-essential.

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Discretionary Expense

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Mathematics that deals with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data.

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Statistics

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A set of numbers.

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Data

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Single indicators, such as the mean, median, and mode, designed to represent a “typical” value for the data. The mean and the median are numeric, while the mode can be a non-numerical value.

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Measures of Central Tendency

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Often referred to as the average; the sum of all the numbers in a data set divided by the number of elements in the data set.

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Mean

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The middle number when the numbers are in ascending or descending order.

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Median

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The most frequently occurring value in a data set; there can be more than one mode or no modes at all. It does not have to be numerical.

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Mode