Topic 8 Vocabulary Quiz

Measures the distance that the data value is from the mean

• Absolute Deviation

• Median

• Mean

The distance between a and zero on a number line

• Box Plot

• Histogram

• Absolute Value

A statistical graph that shows the distribution of a data set by marking five boundary points where data occur along a number line

• Box Plot

• Histogram

• Frequency Table

Describes the way that its data values are spread out over all possible values

• Mean

• Distribution of data set

• Variability

How the data values are arranged

• Data Distribution

• Outlier

• Mode

Shows the number of times a data value or values occur in the data set

• Median

• Range

• Frequency Table

A statistical graph that shows the shape of a data set with vertical bars above intervals of values on a number line

• Quartile

• Histogram

• Statistical Question

The distance between the first and third quartiles

• Interquartile Range

• Mean Absolute Deviation

• Median

The average of a numerical data set

• Median

• Mode

• Mean

The item, or items, in a data set that occurs most frequently

• Mode

• Range

• Quartile