Statistics (basic)

Question 1

What is a frequency table?

Answer 1

Question 2

What is QUANTitative data?

Answer 2

Data that measures something with numbers.

Question 3

What is the math word we mean when we say “average” or “on average”?

Answer 3

MEAN

Question 4

What is continuous data?

Answer 4

Data that fill up a whole spectrum or range or values. Usually, these are measurements: height, weight, distance, etc.

Question 5

What is discrete data?

Answer 5

Things that you can count: 1, 2, 3, etc.

Question 6

What is QUALitative data?

Answer 6

Data can be separated into different categories that don’t have anything to do with numbers.

Question 7

What are the 4 measures of variability?

Answer 7

• range
• IQR (interquartile range)
• variance
• standard deviation

Question 8

What is a quartile?

Answer 8

Question 9

What do quartiles tell us about how the data is distributed?

Answer 9

Question 10

What are the three measures of central tendency?

Answer 10

• Mean
• Median
• Mode