Measures of Center and Variability Vocabulary

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CLUSTER

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a group of data points that crowd near each other

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SKEWED LEFT

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when most of the data points on a graph are clustered near lower values

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SKEWED RIGHT

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when most of the data points on a graph are clustered near lower values

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SYMMETRICAL GRAPHS

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graphs that have the same shape on either side of a middle point

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PEAK

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what forms when many data points are at one value

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OUTLIER

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a data point far away from the other data points; it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the data points

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What is the MEAN in mathematics?

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the average of a set numbers divided by how many there are

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MEDIAN

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the middle number in an ordered set of numbers

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MODE

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the most common number in a set of numbers

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What is the RANGE?

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the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set