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: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. B: 6, 8, 10, 12, 14.
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