Basic Statistics Vocabulary Review

Match the vocabulary with the definitions

• mean

• the largest value

  (maximum)

• upper extreme

• 
• median

• the smallest value

  (minimum)

• mode(s)

• the most occurring value(s)

• lower extreme

• 

Histograms are a way of grouping data by intervals.

The data in the histogram shown represents revenue of the top 25 movies in a recent year.

Use this histogram to answer the three questions below it.

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c

b

No

19

21

5

Yes

10

8

14

4

12

Answer explanation

science of collecting and analyzing data

• statistics

• statistical question

• biology

• forenzics

-information being collected

• data

• variability

• tally

• graph

-type of question that expects a variety of answers

• statistical question

• scientific question

• rhetorical question

• hypothetical question

occurs when observations in a data set are NOT all the same

• variability

• statistically

• historically

• reliability

-describes how spread out the data is

• variability

• interval

• frequency

• mean

-sum divided by number of addends

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

most frequently occurring number in a data set

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

-center number of a data set

• A) mean

• B) median

• C) mode

• D) range