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| 1441033165 | unbiased | does not favor one over another; syn(s). impartial, neutral, objective |  | 0 |
| 1441033166 | Measure of Center | The mean and median are ways to measure the central position within that set of data. Syn. Measure of Central Tendency |  | 1 |
| 1441033167 | Box and Whisker Plot | A diagram that summarizes data using the median upper and lower quartile, and the extreme values (max and min #). |  | 2 |
| 1441033168 | 5 number summary | Minimum Q1: lower quartile Q2: median Q3: upper quartile Maximum |  | 3 |
| 1441033169 | Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) | The average distance of each data value from the mean is a gauge of "on average" how different the data values are from mean |  | 4 |
| 1441033170 | Measures of Variability | The spread of a set of data |  | 5 |
| 1441033171 | Range | A measure of spread for a set of data. Largest # - the smallest # = range |  | 6 |
| 1441033172 | Standard Deviation (SD) | The measure of how numbers spread out the numbers are. |  | 7 |
| 1441033173 | Variation | -the average of the squared differences from the mean - small variance means data is close to the mean. - a large variance means data is far the mean and spread out. |  | 8 |
| 1453739506 | Statistics | The study of data; how to collect, summarize, and present data observations. |  | 9 |
| 1453739507 | Mean | average (syn.); the sum of all the data points divided by the number of data points. is obtained by dividing the sum of observed values by the number of observations |  | 10 |
| 1453739508 | Median | the middle value in a sample of ordered values. If there are 2 middle values in the data set, add the 2 middle values together and divide by 2. Known as the 5oth percentile, half the values are above the median and half are below the median. |  | 11 |
| 1453739509 | Mode | is the value or object which occurs most frequently |  | 12 |
| 1453739511 | Population | a group of objects or people about which information is wanted |  | 13 |
| 1453739512 | Sample | is part of the population |  | 14 |
| 1453739513 | Random Sample | each item of the population has an equal chance of being selected |  | 15 |
| 1453739514 | Biased | makes one appear better than another |  | 16 |
