7th Statistics Vocab

What term describes a measure of the spread of data that represents the difference between the largest and smallest values in a dataset?

• Mean

• Range

• Mode

• Median

Which term refers to the most frequently occurring value in a dataset?

• Median

• Mode

• Mean

• Range

What is the value that divides a dataset into two equal halves when the data is arranged in order?

• Range

• Mean

• Mode

• Median

Which measure of central tendency is calculated by adding all values and dividing by the number of values?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

What term describes the likelihood of an event occurring?

• Sample

• Variable

• Probability

• Distribution

Which term refers to a subset of a population used to make generalizations about the whole group?

• Variable

• Sample

• Population

• Dataset

What is the entire group being studied called?

• Sample

• Dataset

• Population

• Variable

Which term describes how spread out or clustered together the data points are around the mean?

• Range

• Variance

• Mode

• Distribution

What is a characteristic or attribute that can be measured or observed called?

• Population

• Sample

• Variable

• Range

Which term describes the arrangement of numerical data from least to greatest?

• Distribution

• Ascending order

• Population

• Sample