Period 6 Lecture Notes - Analyzing Data Displays

Flashcards covering vocabulary and concepts related to analyzing data displays, including histograms, box plots, mean, median, mode, and range.

Histogram

A data display that represents data over ranges of numbers.

Interval

The distance on the scale in a data display representing a range of data values.

Box Plot

A data display using quartiles to show how data is distributed.

Median

The middle value of a data set.

Dot Plot

A data display that represents data points with dots.

Outlier

A value that lies far from the other data values.

Mean

The average of the numbers in a data set.

Median

The middle number in a set of ordered numbers.

Mode

The number that occurs most frequently in a data set.

Range

The difference between the largest and smallest numbers in a data set.

Histogram

A special type of bar graph used to show the distribution of data using equal intervals.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the first and third quartiles.