Statistics Vocabulary

always has variability in the responses

• Frequency table

• Mean

• Statistical question

• Range

average of the data; sum of all the values in a data set divided by the total number of data values in the set

• Median

• Mode

• Range

• Mean

middle of the data set after ordered from least to greatest 

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

values that divide a data set into four equal parts

• quartiles

• frequency table

• box plot

• mean

difference between the largest and smallest data points

• mode

• median

• range

• mean

shows the number of times a value occurs in each category or interval 

• dot plot

• quartiles

• frequency table

• box plot

a graph that uses bars to show the number of values in each category or interval 

• statistical question

• histogram

• box plot

• quartile

number in the data set that occurs most often 

• mode

• range

• median

• mean