Measures of Center & Quartiles - Vocab

__________ are values that divide the data set into four equal parts.

• outliers

• average

• measures of variation

• quartiles

__________ is a common term used to refer to the measure of central tendency otherwise known as the mean.

• measures of center

• mean absolute deviation

• quartiles

• average

Numbers called __________ can be used to describe a "typical" data value.

• measures of center

• quartiles

• outliers

• range

The _________ is the median of the lower half of the set of data.

• median

• mean

• first quartile

• mode

__________ are used to describe the dispersion, or spread, of the data values.

• third quartile

• median

• measures of variation

• quartiles

The __________ is the median of the upper half of the set of data.

• mode

• average

• outliers

• third quartile

Value that is the middle of the data set when all data is in order

• range

• median

• mode

• mean

value that occurs most often

• mean

• mean absolute deviation

• mode

• median

Subtraction of the maximum and minimum in a data set

• range

• mean

• median

• mode

Subtraction of the Upper and Lower Quartiles

• median

• mean

• interquartile range

• range