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What does the median tell you about the distribution of a set of data?

the midpoint of the data set


What does the mode tell you about the distribution of a set of data?

It tells you that that number has the most part of everything.


What does data distribution mean?

It is the set of values that a variable can take together with the probability or frequency distribution for those values.


What does the mean tell you about a set of data?

The mean tells the sum of the whole set of data.h


What does the normal allow you to measure?

The normal distribution allows you to measure the distribution of a set of data points. It helps to determine the average (mean) of the data and how spread out the data is (standard deviation). By using the normal distribution, you can make predictions about the likelihood of certain values occurring within the data set.


What is a normal data set?

A normal data set is a set of observations from a Gaussian distribution, which is also called the Normal distribution.


What does the mean not tell you about a data set?

The mean alone does not provide any information about the higher order moments of the distribution of the data set. Most important amongst these is that it does not give information about the variance - or the spread of the distribution. The data set could be distributed in a narrow band about the mean or spread more evenly over a wider range. It does not tell you anything about the skewness, that is whether there are many values smaller than the mean balanced by a few large values (or the other way around). Moments of the fourth or higher order are difficult to comprehend and, in most cases, ignored.


This shows how the data set as a whole is spread around the mean?

A frequency distribution plot.


How can you describe what is typical about the distribution of a set of data?

The answer will depend on the set of data!


What is the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean?

Frequently it's impossible or impractical to test the entire universe of data to determine probabilities. So we test a small sub-set of the universal database and we call that the sample. Then using that sub-set of data we calculate its distribution, which is called the sample distribution. Normally we find the sample distribution has a bell shape, which we actually call the "normal distribution." When the data reflect the normal distribution of a sample, we call it the Student's t distribution to distinguish it from the normal distribution of a universe of data. The Student's t distribution is useful because with it and the small number of data we test, we can infer the probability distribution of the entire universal data set with some degree of confidence.


What does the mean adsolute deviation tell you about a data set?

it tells you


What is a frequency distribution for a set of data?

anonymously