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five important charteristics of data - correct answer ✔Center - a representative
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|or average value that indicates where the data set is located
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Variation - a measure of the amount that the data values vary among
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themselves
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Distribution - the nature or shape of the distribution of the data (such as bell-
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shaped, uniform, or skewed) | | |




Outliers - sample values that lie very far away from the vast majority of the
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other sample values
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Time - changing characteristics of the data over time
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a representative or average value that indicates where the data set is located -
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correct answer ✔Center
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a measure of the amount that the data values vary among themselves - correct
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answer ✔Variation
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the nature or shape of the distribution of the data (such as bell-shaped,
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uniform, or skewed) - correct answer ✔Distribution
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sample values that lie very far away from the vast majority of the other sample
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values - correct answer ✔Outliers
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changing characteristics of the data over time - correct answer ✔Time
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, in _______, the objective is to summarize or describe the important
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|characteristics of a set of data - correct answer ✔descriptive statistics
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in _______, sample data is used to make generalizations about a population -
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|correct answer ✔inferential statistics
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a ______ lists data values (either individually or by groups of intervals), along
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with their corresponding frequencies (or counts) - correct answer ✔frequency
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distribution
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the ____ for a particular class is the number of original values that fall into that
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class. - correct answer ✔frequency
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the smallest numbers that can belong to the different classes - correct answer
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✔lower class limits
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the largest numbers that can belong to the different classes - correct answer
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✔upper class limits
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numbers used to seperated classes, but without the gaps created by class limits
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- correct answer ✔class boundaries
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how to find class midpoint - correct answer ✔add the lower class limit to the
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upper class limit and divide the sum by 2
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