8th grade - Topic 4 vocabulary words

A piece of data that doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the data

• deviation

• exception

• outlier

An association between two data sets if the y value tends to increase as the x values increase

• No association

• Negative Association

• Positive association

A group of points that lie close together on a scatter plot

• cluster

• gap

• interval

This allows someone to interpret relationships between categorical data using rows and columns

• Uncommonness compatible table

• Two-way frequency table

• Repetition number table

A graph that uses two points to display the relationship between two different sets of data

• coordinate point graph

• line graph

• scatter plot

A line on the scatter plot drawn near the points that approximates the association between the data sets

• line of best fit

• intersecting lines

• trend line

Collects data that are measured

• categorical data

• measurement data

• Nominal data

An area of a graph that contains no data points.

• cluster

• gap

• interval