AP Biology Statistics

Used to infer what is happening to the general population

• Mean

• Statistics

• Chi-Square

• Central Tendencies

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Descriptive statistics allows for researchers to describe and quantify difference between data sets

• Mean

• Statistics

• Central Tendencies

• Chi-Square

What are the central tendencies?

The average of the data set

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Students in a biology class planted five tomato seeds in separate containers. They exposed the seeds to an artificial light source for twenty days. At the end of the twenty days, the students measured the height of the tomato plant that grew from those seeds. The data is shown below. What is the mean of the data?

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

The middle number in a range of data points. Useful in data sets that have measurements with extreme values or abnormal distribution

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

A group of Labrador retrievers is training for the police academy. One tests is the "sniff" test, where police officers time how long it takes the dogs to find a scent. They collected the data on a group of nine dogs. The data is in the table below. What is the median?

The value that appears most often in a data set.

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

The measure of how far a data set diverges from the central tendency.

• Mean

• Range

• Standard Deviation

• Variability

Variability is measured by _____ & _____.

• Mean

• Range

• Standard Deviation

• Chi-Square

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-3