Week 3 Flashcards

(15 cards)

1
Q

The sample standard deviation formula uses _____ letter

A

arabic

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2
Q

The population standard deviation formula uses _____ letters.

A

greek

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3
Q

central tendency based on the point at which the distribution is in balance

A

balance scale

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4
Q

central tendency based on the concept of the sum of the absolute deviations

A

smallest absolute deviation

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5
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central tendency based on the sum of squared deviations

A

smallest squared deviation

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6
Q

the sum of the numbers divided by the number of numbers

A

arithmetic mean

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7
Q

the midpoint of a distribution

A

median

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8
Q

the most frequently occurring value in the dataset

A

mode

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9
Q

how spread out a distribution is

A

variability, spread, dispersion

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10
Q

the highest score minus the lowest score

A

range

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11
Q

the range of the middle 50% of the scores in a distribution

A

interquartile range

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12
Q

the average squared difference of the scores from the mean

A

variance

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13
Q

resistance to outliers

A

robustness

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14
Q

formula for degrees of freedom

A

N - 1

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15
Q

the square root of the variance

A

standard deviation

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