Chapter 5
Measures of Relative Standing

In statistics, several tools are used to interpret the data. Measures of central tendency represent the characteristics of the data, such as mean,…

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…

A percentile indicates the relative standing of a data value when data are sorted into numerical order from smallest to largest. It represents the…

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…

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…

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…

Development of this in vivo confocal Raman spectroscopic method enables the direct measurement of water, proteins, and lipids with depth resolution…

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a promising, novel method to aid in the assessment of bone quality in forensically relevant skeletal…