TERMS

IN THE SUMMARY STATISTICS BOX:

1. Mean
This is sometimes known as the average. It is found by adding up all of the given data and dividing by the number of data entries.

2. Median
This is the middle value when the data entries are arranged in an increasing/decreasing order.

3. Mode
This is the data that occurs most frequently.

4. Standard Error
This term measures the accuracy with which a sample represents a population. For example, we know for a fact that a sample mean
deviates from the actual mean of a population. This deviation is called the standard error.

5. Standard Deviation
This is used to measure how spread out data are or it is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

6. Sample Variance
This is the average of the squared differences from the mean of a given sample.
7. Kurtosis
This refers to the degree of peakedness of a distribution.
Kinds:
a. Leptokurtic: If Kurtosis > 3
b. Mesokurtic: If Kurtosis = 3
c. Platykurtic: If Kurtosis < 3

8. Skewness
This is a measure of as/symmetry of a distribution
Kinds:
a. Negatively-skewed

b. Positively-skewed

9. Minimum/Smallest
This refers to the smallest/lowest data entry.

10. Maximum/Largest
This refers to the greatest/largest data entry.

11. Sum
This refers to the totality (quantity) of all the data entries.

12. Count
This gives the total number of data entries.


WORSHEET-STAT-MMW: Form your groups. Given the two sets of data.

DATA SET 1. IQ Scores of student applicants in a certain college

128 106 96 94 85 75 113 103 96 91 94 70
109 113 109 100 81 81 103 113 91 88 78 75
106 103 100 88 81 81 113 106 100 96 88 78
109 96 96 94 88 70 72 88 100 94 88 79
103 106 94 91 81 75 96 96 91 88 78 55

DATA SET 2. Final Grades of students in Statistics

4.0 1.0 0.0 1.5 1.5 1.5 2.0 3.5 1.0 3.5
2.5 2.0 1.0 4.0 3.0 2.5 2.5 2.0 1.5 4.0
3.0 2.0 1.0 3.5 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.5 2.0 3.5
2.5 1.5 1.5 3.0 3.5 3.5 2.5 2.0 2.5 3.0
3.0 1.5 3.5 3.0 3.0 1.0 3.0 1.5 1.0 2.0
3.0 2.5 3.0 2.5 4.0 1.5 4.0 3.0 1.0 2.0
1.5 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 1.0
1.0 1.0 2.0 1.5 0.0 2.0 0.0 1.0 3.0 1.0


1. Compare the two distributions in terms of the different descriptive statistics in MS-Excel.
2. Follow the procedures discussed in this module. Column A for Data Set 1 and Column C for Data Set 2.
3. Display the summary statistics for Data Set 1 in E1 and in E20 for Data Set 2.
4. Write the names of the members of the group.
5. SAVE YOUR FILE AS <GROUPNAME>-WORKSHEET1.
6. Send your files in my email d_cvidad@yahoo.com.