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1. Raw scores on tests are meaningless on their own, as they do not provide context about an individual's performance compared to others or the test itself. Frequency distributions, histograms, and other statistical tools can be used to understand and compare scores. 2. Measures of central tendency like the mean, median, and mode, as well as measures of variability like the standard deviation, can be calculated from frequency distributions to understand where scores are concentrated and how spread out they tend to be. 3. Understanding variability and where individuals' scores fall in comparison to the norm helps interpret performance, though it is also important to consider how people feel about their own performance.
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This document provides examples and explanations of various graphical methods for describing data, including frequency distributions, bar charts, pie charts, stem-and-leaf diagrams, histograms, and cumulative relative frequency plots. It demonstrates how to construct these graphs using sample data on student weights, grades, ages, and other examples. The goal is to help readers understand different ways to visually represent data distributions and patterns.
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Basic statics
The document defines basic statistics and discusses frequency distribution and types of frequency distributions. It provides steps to construct discrete and continuous frequency distributions, including determining class limits and boundaries. Examples are given to demonstrate creating frequency tables from raw data for discrete and continuous variables. Key concepts discussed include tally marks, frequencies, class intervals, midpoints, and cumulative frequencies.
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Descriptive statistics
This document discusses descriptive statistics concepts including measures of center (mean, median, mode), measures of variation (range, standard deviation, variance), and properties of distributions (symmetric, skewed). Frequency tables are presented as a method to summarize data, including guidelines for construction and different types (relative frequency and cumulative frequency). Common notation and formulas are provided.
Statistics.ppt
The document outlines key concepts in statistics including frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, dispersion, position, and distribution. It discusses grouped and ungrouped data, mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard deviation, quartiles, percentiles, skewness, kurtosis, and z-scores. Graphs like histograms, pie charts, and ogives are presented as ways to visually represent data. Formulas and examples are provided for calculating various statistical measures.
Anova.ppt
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The document provides information and instructions for analyzing student exam score data. It includes:
1) A table of 80 exam scores ranging from 53 to 97.
2) Instructions to calculate descriptive statistics like minimum, maximum, range, and percentiles of the scores.
3) Directions to construct a frequency distribution table and histogram of the scores binned into intervals of 5.
4) A calculation of measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and dispersion (variance, standard deviation) of the scores.
5) An analysis of the distribution's asymmetry and kurtosis.
26 Ch. 3 Organizing and Graphing DataAssignment 2ME.docx
26 Ch. 3: Organizing and Graphing Data
Assignment 2
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY
Fill in the blanks:
4.1. The score that repeats the most often in a distribution is called the ______.
4.2. The descriptive statistic used the most in inferential statistics as a measure of central tendency is the _________.
4.3. The measure of central tendency used with nominal scale data is the _______.
4.4. To find the mean of a sample, thethe sum of the scoresas is divided by ______.
Circle the correct answer:
4.5. In a positively skewed distribution, the majority of the scores cluster above/below the ________.
4.6. The mode and the mean have the same values in distributions that are normal/negatively skewed.
4.7. Distributions with few scores are more/less likely to have a mode than distributions with many scores.
Answer the following questions:
4.8. Which measure of central tendency would be the most appropriate for summarizing the following test scores? Explain your choice.
13, 14, 10, 38, 11, 12, 16, 15
4.9. What is the difference between and ? How are they related to each other?
4.10. A distribution of 10 scores has a mean of 6. Following are 9 scores of this distribution. Which score is missing (remember that the mean should be 6)?
4, 8, 10, 5, 9, 3, 6, 7, 3
4.11. When the sum of a group of scores is 280 and the mean of the scores is 7, how many scores are in the distribution?
4.12. Find the mode, median, and mean of the distribution depicted in the following histogram:
Frequency
Scores
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
Circle the correct answer:
5.1. The distance between the highest and the lowest scores is called the range/variance.
5.2. The SD is equal to the square root of the mean/variance.
5.3. A test with 30 items is likely to have a higher/lower standard deviation that a test with 80 items.
5.4. The mean of the squared deviation scores is called the variance/standard deviation.
5.5. The SD of the number of errors found by an auditor in a sample of accounts of one company is likely to be higher/lower than the SD of the number of errors found in samples taken from a number of different companies.
5.6. The SD is/is not sensitive to extreme scores.
5.7. The variance of the population is represented by S2/2.
5.8. In most cases, the variance is larger/smaller than the SD.
5.9. The measure of variability that takes into consideration every score in the distribution is the range/standard deviation.
Answer/compute the following questions:
5.10. Study the following three distributions. What are the similarities and differences between the three distributions in terms of their means, ranges, and standard deviations? (Note: Assume the three distributions to be samples if you decide to compute their standard deviations.)
Distribution A: 8, 9, 6, 12, 5
Distribution B: 7, 10, 11, 8, 4
Distribution C: 7, 9, 8, 9, 7
5.11. Three statistics classes (Sections A, B and C), each with 26 students, took the same test. The SD o.
Chapter-2-Frequency-Distribution-and-Graphical-Presentation.pptx
This document discusses frequency distributions and graphical presentations of data. It defines frequency distributions as the pattern of frequencies of a variable's values or grouped values. There are four main types of frequency distributions: ungrouped, grouped, relative, and cumulative. The document also describes three common graphical presentations: pie charts to show relative frequencies of categorical variables, bar charts to display frequency distributions of categorical variables, and histograms to illustrate quantitative variable distributions. The purpose of graphical presentations is to visually compare and relate data.
Assessment compiled
The document discusses various methods for organizing and analyzing test score data, including:
1) Organizing scores in ascending or descending order. Ranking scores from highest to lowest.
2) Creating a stem-and-leaf plot to separate scores into "stems" and "leaves".
3) Calculating measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and using frequency distributions to analyze grouped score data.
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Chapter-2-Frequency-Distribution-and-Graphical-Presentation.pptx
Chapter 4
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