Quarter 4 Vocabulary Practice

involves collecting, organizing, and interpreting pieces of information, or data.

• Statistics

• statistical Question

• Measure of center

• Mean

a question that is answered by collecting data.

• Statistics

• statistical Question

• Measure of Center

• Mean

numbers used to describe the center of numerical data set

• Statistics

• statistical questions

• measure of center

• Mean

is the sum of the items in a data set divided by the number of items in the set. (a.k.a average)

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

the sum of two or more quantities divided by the number of quantities; the mean.

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Average

the middle numbers in an ordered set of data.

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

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

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

a visual display of a distribution of data values where each value is shown as a dot plot above a number line.

• Dot Plots

• Line Plots

• Histograms

• Graph

the number of observations or individuals included in a study or experiment

• Dot Plots

• Measures of Center

• Range

• Sample Size

a type of bar graph used to display numerical data that have been organized into equal intervals.

• Dot Plot

• Line Plot

• Histogram

• Graph