Standard Deviation of Frequency Distribution

What does this symbol represent?

• Standard Deviation
• Variance
• Mean Absolute Deviation
• Sigma

Which of the following is a measure of spread, or variability?

(select all that apply)

• Interquartile Range

• Standard Deviation

• Mean

• Median

• Range

What does standard deviation represent?

• How many different variations are in the data set.

• How the population varies compared to the sample.

• How spread out each data value is from the mean.

• The range, but with a bunch of other stuff going on.

Four data sets are shown below.

Set 1: {10, 19, 38, 50, 51}

Set 2: {5, 21, 26, 39, 51}

Set 3: {9, 38, 50, 50, 51}

Set 4: {5, 28, 28, 28, 51}

Which data set has the largest standard deviation?

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• Set 1
• Set 2
• Set 3
• Set 4

All of the below sets have the same mean.
Set 1-Standard Deviation=3.1
Set 2-Standard Deviation=4.9
Set 3-Standard Deviation=1.7
Set 4-Standard Deviation=3.2
Which set of data probably has the points closest to the mean?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

All of the below sets have the same mean.

Set 1-Standard Deviation=3.1

Set 2-Standard Deviation=4.9

Set 3-Standard Deviation=1.7

Set 4-Standard Deviation=3.2

Which set of data probably has the points furthest to the mean?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

What does a standard deviation of 0 mean?

• There is no spread of data

• The spread of data is close to the mean

• The data is more spread out from the mean

• There is no mean