Review #2

• Continuous data


  Data that can take on any value within a range
• Continuous data


  • Area of a circle
• Discrete data


  • Number of guests in a party
  • Number of chairs in Classroom
  • Number of Humans around the world
• Line graph


  Best used for monitoring temperature every day
• Discrete data


  Data that can only take on certain values
• Continuous data


  Numerical information, values or numerical measurement
• Nominal data


  Data collected when the teacher asks the age of each student
• Pie graph


  Best used for distribution of monthly expenses of a person
• Ordinal data


  Data that can be ranked where the differences between the data values are meaningful
• Nominal data


  Data collected when the teacher is taking attendance by calling students by class number
• Statistics


  Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting, organizing and describing numerical information or data
• Ordinal data


  Data collected for graduating class valedictorian, salutatorian and honorable mention
• Discrete data


  • Number of tourists in Boracay for the month of April
• Length of a wire is continuous data, average life span of a person is continuous data, number of tourists in Boracay for the month of April is discrete data
• 36 students, 16 boys and 20 girls, with average age of 12.4 for boys and 12.8 for girls is discrete data
• Mode


  The value that occurs most frequently in a dataset
• Median


  The middle value in a dataset when the values are arranged in order
• Mean


  The average of a dataset, calculated by adding up all the values and dividing by the total number of values
• Quantitative data


  • The height of the volleyball players in the UAAP
  • Twelve perfect scores in the National Achievement Test
  • The clothing allowance of a casual employee in a company