6th Grade Statistics Vocabulary

What is a statistical question?

• a question that can be answered by collecting data that are expected to vary

• a question that shows data as dots above a number line; may also be called a line plot

• a question that is much greater or much less than the other values in the data set

• a question of how many times a data value occurs in a data set

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is a dot plot?

• a data display that shows data as dots above a number line; may also be called a line plot

• a visual display of data set on a number line that shows the minimum, the lower quartile, the median, the upper quartile, and the maximum

• a numerical count of how many times a data value occurs in a data set

• a data display similar to a bar graph; groups the data into equal-size intervals

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

Median

• the middle number in an ordered set of values; if the set has an even number of values, you must find the average of the two numbers in the middle

• a data value that is much greater or much less than the other values in the data set

• a numerical count of how many times a data value occurs in a data set

• the sum of a set of values divided by the number of values; often called the average

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CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT step when answering questions about numerical data is to....

• Put the numbers in order from LEAST to GREATEST

• Put the numbers in order from GREATEST to LEAST

• Get rid of the even numbers

• Get rid of the odd numbers

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CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

When MOST of the data is clustered near the LESSER values, the data is considered to be

• Skewed Right

• Skewed Left

• Skewed High

• Skewed Low

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CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

When MOST of the data is clustered near the GREATER values, the data is considered to be

• Skewed Right

• Skewed Left

• Skewed High

• Skewed Low

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CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

Range

• The difference between the greatest value (maximum) and the least value (minimum)

• The sum of a set of values divided by the number of values; often called the average

• The number or numbers that occur most frequently in the data

• The difference between the upper quartile and the lower quartile

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Outlier

• an interval of the number line for which a distribution has no data values

• an extreme value in a data set that is either much larger or much smaller than all the other values.

• a visual display of data set on a number line that shows the minimum, the lower quartile, the median, the upper quartile, and the maximum

• the number or numbers that occur most frequently in the data

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

When a distribution has the same shape on both sides of a middle point, it is considered

• even

• equivalent

• aesthetic

• symmetrical

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What type of graph groups data into equal-size intervals

• dot plot

• line plot

• box plot

• histogram

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.4