MEASURES OF CENTRE AND SPREAD
The median, range and interquartile range The most versatile statistical tools for numerically describing the centr e and spread of a distribution are: the median (the middle value) as a measure of centre ; the range (the maximum spread of the data values), and the interquartile range (the spread of the middle half of data values) as measures of spread . While these statistical values ( median, range, interquartile range ) could be estimated only approximately from a histogram , they can be determined exactly when we use either a dot or a stem plot . MEDIAN Activity 1: Finding the median value in a data set. Order each of the following data sets, locate the median, and record its value. (a) 2 9 1 8 3 5 3 8 1 For an odd number of data values, the median will be the middle data valu...









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