Tag Archives: Third Quartile

Looking at Spread

In the previous post Two Statisticians in a Battlefield, we discussed the importance of reporting a spread in addition to an average when describing data. In this post we look at three specific notions of spread. They are measures that … Continue reading

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Comparing Growth Charts

Suppose both an 8-year old boy and a 10-year old boy are 54 inches tall (four feet six inches). Physically they are of the same heights. But a better way to compare is to find out where each boy stands … Continue reading

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When Bill Gates Walks into a Bar

The mean of a data set is obtained by summing the data elements in the data set and divided by the total number of data elements (what most people think of as average). The median of a data set is … Continue reading

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