Ch 11 Statistical Measures Vocabulary

The _______________ is the middle number, or the mean of the two middle numbers, of the ordered data in a set.

• median

• mode

• range

• average

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Choose the correct term to complete each sentence. The _______________ of the data set is the sum of the data divided by the number of pieces of data.

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Choose the correct term to complete each sentence. _______________ are values that divide the data set into four equal parts.

• Quartiles

• Percentiles

• Deciles

• Medians

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Choose the correct term to complete each sentence. Extremely high or low values in a data set are called _______________.

• outliers

• divergents

• inliers

• extremes

The _______________ is the number or numbers that occur most frequently in a data set.

• mode

• mean

• median

• range

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5D

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

Choose the correct term to complete each sentence. The _______________ is the difference between the greatest and least data values.

• range

• median

• mode

• variance

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

Choose the correct term to complete each sentence. _______________ is a common term used to refer to the measure of central tendency otherwise known as the mean.

• Average

• Median

• Mode

• Arithmetic

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

Choose the correct term to complete each sentence. Numbers called __________________________ can be used to describe the center of data.

• measures of center

• types of average

• forms of distribution

• statistical samples

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

Choose the correct term to complete each sentence. The _______________ is a measure of how spread out the numbers in a data set are.

• standard deviation

• mode

• mean

• median

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

Choose the correct term to complete each sentence. The _______________ is the value that appears halfway in a data set when it is ordered from least to greatest.

• mean

• median

• range

• mode

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5C