For my final project, I decided to write my paper over my findings of if people were knowledgeable about cancer. This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart, I have had a few family diagnosed with cancer. Most of them are now in remission and I did lose a two family members that lost their battle. I think if more people became knowledgeable about cancer, we maybe can find a cure in the near future. I will explain how I analyzed the knowledge of the random audience that I selected to partake in my survey. The key terms and definitions that I will be using are: statistics, mean, median, mode, standard deviation, range, and population standard deviation. Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions. The mean of a data set is the sum of the data entries divided by the number of entries. The median of a data set is the value that lies in the middle of the data when the data set is ordered. The mode of a data set is the data entry that occurs with the greatest frequency. Standard deviation is a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole. The range of a data set is the difference between the maximum and minimum data entries in the set. The population standard deviation of a population data set of N entries is the square root of the population variance (Larson & Farber, 2014). The collection of data part was the most fun for me! I crated a survey or list
1. For the following scores, find the mean, median, and the mode. Which would be the most appropriate measure for this data set?
Standard deviation is a way of visualizing how spread out points of data are in a set. Using standard deviation helps to determine how rare or common an occurrence is. For example, data points falling within the boundaries of one standard deviation typically account for about 68% of data and those between (+/-)1 standard deviation and (+/-)2 standard deviations make about 27% combined. This can be better visualized by using a bell graph. Using the mean and standard deviation, the points where standard deviations occur can be drawn on the graph to better understand which data is rare and which is common.
Theoretically from the recorded data the calculated mean, median, and mode will be the most accurate representation of the real world value. The difference between the highest recorded value and lowest recorded value is the range in the set of data. Standard deviation (s) is a quantity calculated to indicate an extend of deviation for a group of data as a whole (Marshall). This is calculated using:
5. Give the standard deviation for the mean and median column. Compare these and be sure to identify which has the least variability?
and SD are _______________________ statistics. The mean is the measure of Central tendency of a distribution while SD is a measure of dispersion of its scores. Both X and SD is descriptive statistics.
Research results tell us information about data that has been collected. Within the data results, the author states the results are statistically significant, meaning that there is a relationship within either a positive and negative correlation. The M (Mean) of the data tells the average value of the results. The (SD) Standard Deviation is the variability of a set of data around the mean value in a distribution (Rosnow & Rosenthal, 2013).
Standard Deviation for the mean column is 0.476Standard Deviation for the median column is 0.754Standard deviation for the mean column has least variability
Descriptive statistics are digits that are used to summarize and describe a given range of data (Klenke, 2008). Basic descriptive data includes, mean, median, mode, variance and standard deviation. The data can be rearranged in an ascending order as follows:
8. Analyze: How does the standard deviation relate to the consistency and range of a data set?
Based on the given sample of student test scores of 50, 60, 74, 83, 83, 90, 90, 92, and 95 after rearranging them from least to greatest. As the mean is based on the average of sum, the average of this sample is 79.67 or 80. The mode refers to numbers that appear the most in a sequence and in this case 83 and 90 both appear twice. Range calculates the difference between the largest and smallest number, which are 95 and 50 which have a difference of 45. The variance is the difference between the sum of squares divided by the sample size, which is the number in the sample minus one (Hansen & Myers, 2012), meaning it takes each number of the set and subtracts
Cancer. We all know someone who has suffered from it or has passed away because of it. Cancer now affects one in every three people, and is the second highest cause of death in the United States. For decades, the medical community has been on the hunt for a cure for cancer, and have been subjected to intense ridicule from the public because of a lack of progression toward a possible cure. In recent years, many scientists, doctors, researchers, and the general public have come to believe that the cure for cancer is being suppressed because of this lack of progress. Those who say it is suppressed claim that the drugs used to treat cancer actually cause cancer, making a patient sicker and sicker. As a result, the patients are forced to spend
Statistical dispersion is measured by a number system. The measure would be zero, if all the data were the same. As the data varies, the measurement number increases. There are two purposes to organizing this data. The first is to show how different units seem similar, by choosing the proper statistic, or measurement. This is called central tendency. The second is to choose another statistic that shows how they differ. This is known as statistical variability. The most commonly used statistics are the mean (average), median (middle or half), and mode (most frequent data). After the data is collected, classified, summarized, and presented, then it is possible to move on to inferential statistics if there is enough data to draw a conclusion.
You must create a program with a main method that defines the StatCalc class and instantiates an instance of StatCalc called myStatCalc. Your program should instantiate the instance of the StatCalc using a statement similar to the
As we progressed through primary and secondary schooling, we probably learned different mathematical concepts such as mean, median, mode, and range. These mathematical concepts may be considered easy mathematical concepts, but they are part of complex statistical ideas. Meier et al. (2015) discusses in his textbook the usage of range and other variety of dispersion measures. He
The divergence in a set of numbers in a given data range is referred to as variation. It has common measures including variance, standard deviation and inter-quartile range that are used in measuring variation among a set of data.