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What is Midrange?

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Midrange


The midrange is simply the midpoint between the highest and lowest values.

What is Mode?

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Mode

The mode is the most frequent data value. There may be no mode if no one value appears more than any other. There may also be two modes (bimodal), three modes (trimodal), or more than three modes (multi-modal).

For grouped frequency distributions, the modal class is the class with the largest frequency.

What is Grouped Frequency Distribution?

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Grouped Frequency Distribution


This is the tough one.

Since the data is grouped, you have lost all original information. Some textbooks have you simply take the midpoint of the class. This is an over-simplification which isn't the true value (but much easier to do). The correct process is to interpolate.

Find out what proportion of the distance into the median class the median by dividing the sample size by 2, subtracting the cumulative frequency of the previous class, and then dividing all that bay the frequency of the median class.

Multiply this proportion by the class width and add it to the lower boundary of the median class.

What is Ungrouped Frequency Distribution?

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Ungrouped Frequency Distribution


Find the cumulative frequencies for the data. The first value with a cumulative frequency greater than depth of the median is the median. If the depth of the median is exactly 0.5 more than the cumulative frequency of the previous class, then the median is the midpoint between the two classes.

What is Raw Data?

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Raw Data


The median is the number in the "depth of the median" position. If the sample size is even, the depth of the median will be a decimal -- you need to find the midpoint between the numbers on either side of the depth of the median.

What is Median?

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Median

The data must be ranked (sorted in ascending order) first. The median is the number in the middle.

To find the depth of the median, there are several formulas that could be used, the one that we will use is: 
Depth of median = 0.5 * (n + 1)

What is Mean?

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Mean


This is what people usually intend when they say "average"

Population Mean: 
Population Mean
Population Mean



Sample Mean: 
Sample Mean
Sample Mean


Frequency Distribution: 
Frequency Distribution
Frequency Distribution
The mean of a frequency distribution is also the weighted mean.


What is Average

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Average

The term "Average" is vague


Average could mean one of four things. The arithmetic mean, the median, midrange, or mode. For this reason, it is better to specify which average you're talking about.