Unit 7 Statistics

Measure of center- is a single measure

used to represent the middle value.

Mean: average number, sum divided by

the number of values in a data set.
Median- is the middle value.
Mode- the number that appears the
most.

Maximum- the largest value in the data

set.
Minimum- the smallest value in the data
set.

First Quartile: median of the lower half of

data
Second quartile: the median.
Third quartile: median of the upper half
of data.
Measure of spread- the number used to
describe how far apart certain key values
are from each other.

Interquartile range- the difference

between quartile one and three.
Range- the difference between the
maximum and minimum.
Mead absolute deviation- the average
absolute value of the difference
between each data point in the data set
and the mean.

Ex.1 Find the mean, median, mode,

interquartile range, range, and make a
box plot.
Outliers
-data values that are much less/greater
than most of the values in the data set. To
determine lower outliers, plug into:

If there is a number less than this in the

data set, it is in an outlier.

If there is a number greater than this in

the data set, it is an outlier.

Ex.1 Are there outliers? Then choose the

best measure of center.
Ex.2 Find the variance.

Ex.3 Find the standard deviation.

Uniform distribution- is a set of values
that are symmetric to the mean and have
equal frequencies corresponding to any
two equally sized intervals.

Normal distribution- set of values that are

symmetric to the mean. Forms a normal
curve.
Ex.1 Find the proportion of values
between 0 and 1 in a uniform distribution
that has an interval of -3 to 3.
Ex.2 Madison needs to ride a shuttle bus
to reach an airport terminal. Shuttle
buses arrive every 15 minutes, and the
arrival time for buses are uniformly
distributed. What is the proportion that
Madison will need to wait more than 6
minutes for a bus.
Ex.3 temperature in a controlled room is
normally distributed throughout the day,
with a mean of 0 Celsius and a standard
deviation of 1 Celsius. Shane randomly
selects a time to enter the room. What is
the probability that the temperature will
be between -1 Celsius and 1 Celsius.
Ex.4 The scores of a particular college
admission test are normally distributed,
with a mean score of 30 and a standard
deviation of 2. Erin scored a 34 on her
test. If possible, determine the percent of
test takers whom Erin out performed on
the test.
Ex1 Test scores of students in a class
have a mean of 70 and a standard
deviation of 12. What is the percentage of
students who scored more than 95?
Ex.2 An organization made a survey on
the monthly salary of their clerical level
employees in Dallas. The data revealed
the mean as 4,000 with a standard
deviation of 600. Find what percent of
employees are in the salary bracket
[4,000, 4,500].