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Title

Overview

Description

Statistics - Overview (Chapter 2)

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Subject

Mathematics

Level

Undergraduate 1

Created

01/27/2008

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Term

Center

Definition

A representative or average value that indicates where the middle of the data set is located.

Term

Variation

Definition

A measure of the amount that the data values very amount themselves.

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Distribution

Definition

The nature or shape of the distribution of the data (such as bell-shaped, uniform, or skewed).

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Outliers

Definition

Sample values that lie very far away from the vast majority of the other sample values.

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Time

Definition

Changing characteristics of the data over time.