Numerical summaries & display

On watching this video, students should be able to:

1. Explain what is meant by descriptive statistics.
2. Explain what is meant by a frequency distribution.
3. Interpret histograms, identify when they are used and describe the shape of a distribution as symmetric, right skewed, left skewed, unimodal, bimodal or multimodal.
4. Interpret box plots and identify when they are used.
5. Describe the different summary statistics of central tendency: arithmetic mean, median mode and geometric mean, and state their appropriate use
6. Describe the measures of spread: standard deviation and interquartile range, and identify situations when to use each of these.
7. Define a robust statistic as a measure that is not heavily affected by skewness and extreme outliers.