STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS
MEASURES OF CENTER AND SPREAD
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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minimum
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first quartile
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mean
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third quartile
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maximum
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Detailed explanation-1: -The mean is not used in a five number summary. A five number summary consists of the minimum value, the first quartile, the median, the third quartile, and the maximum value.
Detailed explanation-2: -A summary consists of five values: the most extreme values in the data set (the maximum and minimum values), the lower and upper quartiles, and the median. These values are presented together and ordered from lowest to highest: minimum value, lower quartile (Q1), median value (Q2), upper quartile (Q3), maximum value.
Detailed explanation-3: -The five number summary contains: minimum, maximum, median, mean and the standard deviation. All of these functions are implemented in the numpy module, you can either output them to the screen or store them in a variable.