Which measure of central tendency equals the sum of the data values in a set divided by the number of data values apex?

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Which of the three measures of central tendency (the mean, the median, and the mode) can assume more than one value for a data set? Give an example of a data set for which this summary measure assumes more than one value.

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this problem asks which of the three measures of central dynasty can assume more than one value for a deficit. And we want to illustrate by an example The three measures of central density are the mean, the mood and the media. Of course each dataset has a unique mean and a unique medium. But it can has more than one mood because the equation of the mean is the summation of X. Buy the buy in and the median. We take the average Between the two middle values. Or we take only the middle value after sorting the deficit. But the mood can be more than one because it represents the most repeated value. Then we can Have one or more repeated value. This take an example a close with 10 students. The grids of the 10 students out of five Out of 10 for example. Or as false. The 1st 1 got six out of 10. The Second One at seven, third one at six Then we have five then then then we have four nine. It This 123456789. And the last one got three if you want to get them in we just Add these values together and divide by 10. If we want to get the median we just sort these values from the middle from these. Just three 45 66 seven it nine. Then then then we take the average of these two values. The median is 6.5. Then we have unique mean and a unique. Immediately let's see what is the most reputed value. We can notice that sex is related to times, Then is repeated two times. So we have two moods, the first one is six and the second one is 10, and there is no unique of this example illustrates the idea.

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The results from the last quiz that Mr. Tham gave his class are 10, 15, 25, 75, 75, 77, 80, 83, 85, and 90. If he wants to persuade his class to study harder for the next quiz, what statistical measure should he use?

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Learning Outcomes

• Calculate the mean, median, and mode of a set of data
• Calculate the range of a data set, and recognize it’s limitations in fully describing the behavior of a data set
• Calculate the standard deviation for a data set, and determine it’s units
• Identify the difference between population variance and sample variance
• Identify the quartiles for a data set, and the calculations used to define them
• Identify the parts of a five number summary for a set of data, and create a box plot using it

Mean, Median, and Mode

Let’s begin by trying to find the most “typical” value of a data set.

Note that we just used the word “typical” although in many cases you might think of using the word “average.” We need to be careful with the word “average” as it means different things to different people in different contexts.  One of the most common uses of the word “average” is what mathematicians and statisticians call the arithmetic mean, or just plain old mean for short.  “Arithmetic mean” sounds rather fancy, but you have likely calculated a mean many times without realizing it; the mean is what most people think of when they use the word “average.”

Mean

The mean of a set of data is the sum of the data values divided by the number of values.

examples

Marci’s exam scores for her last math class were 79, 86, 82, and 94. What would the mean of these values would be?

The number of touchdown (TD) passes thrown by each of the 31 teams in the National Football League in the 2000 season are shown below.

37 33 33 32 29 28 28 23 22 22 22 21 21 21 20

20 19 19 18 18 18 18 16 15 14 14 14 12 12 9 6

What is the mean number of TD passes?

Both examples are described further in the following video.

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The price of a jar of peanut butter at 5 stores was $3.29, $3.59, $3.79, $3.75, and $3.99. Find the mean price.

examples

The one hundred families in a particular neighborhood are asked their annual household income, to the nearest $5 thousand dollars. The results are summarized in a frequency table below.

What is the mean average income in this neighborhood?

Extending off the last example, suppose a new family moves into the neighborhood example that has a household income of $5 million ($5000 thousand).

What is the new mean of this neighborhood’s income?

Both situations are explained further in this video.

While 83.1 thousand dollars ($83,069) is the correct mean household income, it no longer represents a “typical” value.

Imagine the data values on a see-saw or balance scale. The mean is the value that keeps the data in balance, like in the picture below.

If we graph our household data, the $5 million data value is so far out to the right that the mean has to adjust up to keep things in balance.

For this reason, when working with data that have outliers – values far outside the primary grouping – it is common to use a different measure of center, the median.

Median

The median of a set of data is the value in the middle when the data is in order.

• To find the median, begin by listing the data in order from smallest to largest, or largest to smallest.
• If the number of data values, N, is odd, then the median is the middle data value. This value can be found by rounding N/2 up to the next whole number.
• If the number of data values is even, there is no one middle value, so we find the mean of the two middle values (values N/2 and N/2 + 1)

example

Returning to the football touchdown data, we would start by listing the data in order. Luckily, it was already in decreasing order, so we can work with it without needing to reorder it first.

37 33 33 32 29 28 28 23 22 22 22 21 21 21 20

20 19 19 18 18 18 18 16 15 14 14 14 12 12 9 6

What is the median TD value?

Find the median of these quiz scores: 5 10 8 6 4 8 2 5 7 7

Learn more about these median examples in this video.

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The price of a jar of peanut butter at 5 stores was $3.29, $3.59, $3.79, $3.75, and $3.99. Find the median price.

Example

Let us return now to our original household income data

What is the mean of this neighborhood’s household income?

If we add in the new neighbor with a $5 million household income, then there will be 101 data values, and the 51st value will be the median. As we discovered in the last example, the 51st value is $35 thousand. Notice that the new neighbor did not affect the median in this case. The median is not swayed as much by outliers as the mean is.

View more about the median of this neighborhood’s household incomes here.

In addition to the mean and the median, there is one other common measurement of the “typical” value of a data set: the mode.

Mode

The mode is the element of the data set that occurs most frequently.

The mode is fairly useless with data like weights or heights where there are a large number of possible values. The mode is most commonly used for categorical data, for which median and mean cannot be computed.

Example

In our vehicle color survey earlier in this section, we collected the data

Which color is the mode?

Mode in this example is explained by the video here.

It is possible for a data set to have more than one mode if several categories have the same frequency, or no modes if each every category occurs only once.

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Reviewers were asked to rate a product on a scale of 1 to 5. Find

1. The mean rating
2. The median rating
3. The mode rating

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