Measures
Measures
Measures
CREATED BY
ANTONIO VILLAVERDE
RICARDO RIOS
DAMIAN OLIVAS
TENDENCY
MEASURES...
The mode is the number that The median is the middle number The mean is what most people
appears most frequently in a list when a list of numbers is call the "average." For example,
of numbers. For example, if you arranged in order from smallest if you have 2, 3, and 4, you add
Include the mode, median, and have the numbers 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, to largest. Imagine you have the them together (2 + 3 + 4 = 9)
and then divide by 3 (because
mean, are ways to describe the 4, and 5, the mode is 4 because numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. The
there are 3 numbers). So, the
it appears more often than any median is 5 because it's right in
"center" or "average" of a set of other number. the middle. mean is 9 / 3 = 3.
numbers
DECILES PERCENTILES
...OF LOCATION
QUARTILES
Quartiles divide a dataset into Deciles divide a dataset into ten Percentiles are used to divide a
four equal parts, each equal parts, with each part dataset into 100 equal parts,
containing 25% of the data. The containing 10% of the data. For with each part representing 1%
Are used to divide a dataset into three quartiles are: example, the 1st decile (D1) of the data.
specific segments, helping to represents the data below which
identify where certain data points FIRST QUARTILE (Q1)
SECOND QUARTILE (Q2)
10% of the values fall, and the
5th decile (D5) represents the
are located within the dataset THIRD QUARTILE (Q3) median.