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Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.4: Distributions Of Data

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Which of the following statement is incorrect about measures of central tendency? a. The value of the mean may or may not be an actual value from the data set. b. The value of the median may or may not be an actual value from the data set. c. Mean is strongly influenced by outliers or extreme values. d. Mode is always present in all data set. Which of the following is not true about the normal curve? a. The tails of the curve are asymptomatic to the horizontal line. b. The number of data points at both sides of the curve is the same c. The two sides of the normal curve is symmetrical with respect to the center. d. The measures of central tendency all coincide at the center.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the value that occurs most frequently in a data set. A data set may have more than one mode if multiple categories repeat an equal number of times. For example, in a data set with five item—3, 5, 5, 29, 473—the mode is 5 because it occurs twice and no other value occurs more than once. On a histogram or bar chart, the element with the highest bar represents the mode. Therefore, the mode is sometimes considered the most popular option. The mode is useful for nominal or categorical data (e.g., the most common color car that users purchase), but it is problematic for continuous data because it is more likely not to have any value that is more frequent than the other.

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