Mathematics — first biennium · Lesson
Comparing distributions requires more than one centre measure: read centre, spread and possible extreme values together.
Prerequisites: Introductory variability
Goal: Compare centre and spread of simple distributions.
In this lesson: Compare centre and spread of simple distributions.
How to proceed: Compute centre first and then spread: two datasets with the same mean can have very different shapes.
You can already assume: Introductory variability.
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Compute centre first and then spread: two datasets with the same mean can have very different shapes.
Data / situation: A: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. B: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11.
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