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Chapter 5

Measures of Relative Standing

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In statistics, several tools are used to interpret the data. Measures of central tendency represent the characteristics of the data, such as mean, median, …
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A z score (or standardized value) is measured in units of the standard deviation. It tells you how many standard deviations the value x is above (to the …
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The z score is one of the three measures of relative standing. It describes the location of a value in a dataset relative to the mean. z scores are …
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A percentile indicates the relative standing of a data value when data are sorted into numerical order from smallest to largest. It represents the …
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Quartiles are numbers that separate the data into quarters. Quartiles may or may not be part of the data. To find the quartiles, first, find the median or …
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In a dataset, the 5-number summary includes the minimum data value, the data value of the first quartile, the median data value or data value of the …
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Box plots (also called box-and-whisker plots or box-whisker plots) give an excellent graphical image of the concentration of the data. They also show how …
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Outliers are observed data points that are far from the least squares line. They have unusual values and need to be examined carefully. Though an outlier …
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A standard box and whisker plot informs us about the spread of the data in a given sample. One can identify the minimum value, maximum value, first …
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Perturbed mitochondrial metabolism has received renewed interest as playing a causative role in a range of diseases. Probing alterations to metabolic …
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Anesthesia arguably provides one of the only systematic ways to study the neural correlates of global consciousness/unconsciousness. However to date most …
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