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Calculate the measures of central tendency for a sample
This question provides a list of data to the student. They are asked to find the mean, median, mode and range.
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England schools
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England university
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Scotland schools
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Chris Graham 5 years, 9 months ago
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Chris Graham 5 years, 9 months ago
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The variable name "as" is reserved. I've updated it and the question is back working again.
Mario Orsi 5 years, 9 months ago
Gave some feedback: Doesn't work
Chris Graham commented 7 years, 7 months ago
Moved the list of answers into a table, to make the formatting more consistent with similar questions.
Stanislav Duris 7 years, 8 months ago
Published this.Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 8 months ago
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Christian Lawson-Perfect 7 years, 8 months ago
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A good simple question.
Here's a simpler way of making sure you've got a unique mode: generate a random set of 19 values. Find a modal value of that set (there might be more than one), and add another instance of that value to get a list of 20 items with a unique mode.
Stanislav Duris 7 years, 8 months ago
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Stanislav Duris 7 years, 8 months ago
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Name | Type | Generated Value |
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a | list |
List of 20 items
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a_s | list |
List of 20 items
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mean | number |
3.85
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median | number |
3.5
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mode | list |
[ 3 ]
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mode1 | integer |
3
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range | number |
7
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modetimes | list |
[ 2, 1, 2, 5, 3, 0, 4, 3, 0 ]
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Name | Type | Generated Value |
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modea1 | list |
[ 3 ]
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modea2 | list |
[ 3 ]
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a1 | list |
List of 20 items
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a2 | list |
List of 20 items
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a3 | list |
List of 20 items
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Generated value: list
- a1
- a2
- a3
- modea1
- modea2
- a_s
- mean
- median
- mode
- modetimes
- range
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