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MBF3C Name: ____________________

Chapter 3: One-Variable Statistics Date: _______________

REVIEW
3.1 Sampling Techniques
1. Statistics is the process of ____________________, _________________________, and
____________________ data.
2. Describe the difference between a sample and population.

3. List and describe briefly 6 different ways to choose a sample.


Simple random sample

Stratified random sample

Voluntary-response sample

Cluster sample

Convenience sample

Systematic sample

4. a) What is bias?

b) Write a survey question that is non-biased.


3.3 Display Data
1. Create a circle or bar graph or a histogram to display statistics.
2. a) Data can be either ____________________ or numerical.
b) Describe the two types of numerical data.

3. a) What type of chart do you use to display categorical data?


b) Give an example.

4. When is it appropriate to use a circle graph?

5. Describe three differences between a bar graph and a histogram.

3.4 Measures of Central Tendency


1. a) Describe how to calculate each of the three measures of central tendency.
Mean

Median

Mode

b) Is there a more common word that describes each measure?

2. Describe what is meant when a measurement is described as an outlier.


3. Which measure of central tendency best represents a given set of data? For example, Joe
scores 30, 70, 73, 76, and 79 on five mathematics tests.
a) What measure best describes Joe’s test results?
b) Why?

3.5 Measures of Spread


1. Describe how to calculate range.

2. a) What are quartiles?

b) For the set of data {2, 3, 4, 10, 15, 30, 50}, show how to calculate Q1, the median, and
Q3.

3. a) How much of the data is between Q1 and Q3?


b) Between Q1 and the median?
c) Between the median and Q3?
4. Sketch a box-and-whisker plot for the set of data {2, 3, 4, 10, 15, 30, 50}.

5. Describe the steps in finding the standard deviation of the set of data {2, 3, 4, 10, 15, 30,
50}.
1. Find the _______________.
2. Create a chart with __________ columns and enough rows for each number in your data
set.
3. Fill the first column row by row with the numbers from the data set, in order from least
to greatest.
4. In the second column, for each number in the data set, calculate the
____________________of the value from the mean.
5. In the third column, _______________ each value from the second column.
6. Calculate the __________ of all the values in the third column. This is the sum of the
squares of the differences from the mean.
7. The _______________ is the sum of the square of the differences from the mean divided
by the size of the data set (the number of values in the set of data, or the number of
rows of data in your table).
8. The standard deviation is the _________________________ of the variance.
6. a) How much of the data is within one standard deviation of the mean?
b) What do we call data that is within this spread?
3.6 Common Distributions
Frequency distributions, or histograms, can be created from numerical data sets. The shape of
the histogram can be interpreted to describe the data.
1. Label each distribution as either bimodal, normal, or skewed.

2. Describe three properties of the normal distribution.

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