Monday, June 6, 2011

Measures Of Central Tendency

- A value that represents the centre of a data set

- Can be the mean, median or mode

- Data set is a group of numbers that you must arrange in order from least to greatest

- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 5, 34, 3

- 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 34

Median- the middle number in a set of data after the data have been arrange in order

Median of 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, is 6
Medina 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10 is 7
6+8=14
14/2=7

Mode- the most frequently occurring number in a set of data

- Mode and most both have 4 letters and mo

- Mode of 3, 5, 7, 7, 9, is 7

- Mode of 2, 2, 4, 6, 6, 11 is 2, 6

- Mode of 1, 2, 3 5, is no mode

- Mode of 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, is no mode


Mean- a measure of central tendency

The sum of a set of values divided by the number of values in the set

Mean of 6, 4, 8, is 4
4, 6, 8
4+6+8=18
18/3=6a

- Range - the positive difference between the largest and smallest values in a data set range of 4, 8,56, 9, 1, 3, 5, 8, 6, is 8

1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6,8, 8, 9
9-1=8 mean,

-2, -7, -1, -4
-7, -4, -2, -1
(-1) - (-7)=6

outlier -a value that is much larger of smaller then the other data value the data set may have then 1 outlier or zero outliers

Outliers for- 1, 67, 68, 67 ,64, 35, 100 are 1 and 100

Find mean, median, mode, range and outliers for the following data sets

18, 19, 79, 17, 20, 12 - Mean

14, 14, 16, 15 1, 16 - Median

98, 202, 99, 91, 2, 95, 89 ,88 94 - Mode

6 comments:

Dom817 said...

Good job Alexia! This really helped me. But next time You should add a link or a video and highlight the key words. But everything else was good.

GurpreetS9-05 said...

Good job Alexia you had all the information but you didnt add a link or a video here is a link that helped me and maybe would help you too http://www.statcan.gc.ca/edu/power-pouvoir/ch11/5214867-eng.htm

Jenny816 said...

Awesome job Alexia you had a lot of information and i understand them. Next time add some colors, videos, links and check your spelling. Great job though.

Shari873 said...

Great job Alexia! this will help me on exams. But i think you should add a link.

angela816 said...

Good job Alexia! You explained the definition for everything. But I suggest you add some more colors to your scribe.
I also found a link that you should put:
http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-7/calculate-mean-median-mode-and-range

Taylor 7-72 said...

good job. your post will help me study for exams but maybe next time add some more color to make it stand out more or add a link, picture or video to help people understand what your saying more.