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Biostatistics: Descriptive Statistics and Distributions

Measures of central tendency, variability, and common probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson) as cloze cards with each term defined.

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The ____ is the arithmetic average of a data set, calculated by summing all values and dividing by the number of observations.
mean
The ____ is the middle value of a data set when all values are ordered from smallest to largest.
median
The ____ is the most frequently occurring value in a data set.
mode
In a data set with an even number of observations, the median is calculated as the ____.
average of the two middle values
A distribution is called ____ when it has two distinct peaks or most frequent values.
bimodal
In a ____ distribution, the mean, median, and mode are all equal and the curve is symmetric and bell-shaped.
normal (Gaussian)
In a ____ distribution, approximately 68 percent of values fall within one standard deviation of the mean.
normal
In a normal distribution, approximately ____ percent of values fall within two standard deviations of the mean.
95
In a normal distribution, approximately ____ percent of values fall within three standard deviations of the mean.
99.7
A distribution is ____ when the mean is greater than the median and the tail extends to the right.
positively (right) skewed
A distribution is ____ when the mean is less than the median and the tail extends to the left.
negatively (left) skewed
In a right-skewed distribution, outliers pull the ____ more than the median, making it the higher of the two measures.
mean
The ____ is the difference between the maximum and minimum values in a data set.
range
The ____ is the average of the squared deviations of each value from the mean.
variance
The ____ is the square root of the variance and expresses variability in the same units as the original data.
standard deviation

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