{"id":27968,"date":"2024-06-12T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/why-do-we-need-to-study-the-variation-of-a-collection-of-data-why-isnt-the-average-by-itself-adequate\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:59:01","slug":"why-do-we-need-to-study-the-variation-of-a-collection-of-data-why-isnt-the-average-by-itself-adequate","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/why-do-we-need-to-study-the-variation-of-a-collection-of-data-why-isnt-the-average-by-itself-adequate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we need to study the variation of a collection of data? Why isn&#8217;t the average by itself adequate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Write a brief but complete essay, in which you summarize the main points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Please include jormulas and graphs as appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">We have studied three ways to measure variation: the range, standard deviation, box-and whisker plot. They all indicate the variation within data collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Discuss similarities and differences among these ways to measure data variation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">\u2022 Why would it seem reasonable to pair the median with a box-and-whisker plot &amp; to pair the mean with the standard deviation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">What are the advantages and disadvantages of each method of describing data spread?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Comment on statements such as following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">a) The range is easy to compute, but it doesn&#8217;t give much information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">b)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Although the standard deviation is more complicated to compute, it has some significant applications;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">c) The box-and-whisker plot is fairly easy to construct and it gives a lot of information at a glance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write a brief but complete essay, in which you summarize the main points. Please include jormulas and graphs as appropriate. We have studied three ways to measure variation: the range, standard deviation, box-and whisker plot. They all indicate the variation within data collection. Discuss similarities and differences among these ways to measure data variation. \u2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[8],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=27968"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=27968"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=27968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}