Measures of Location (Year 8)

Spread: The distance/ how spread out/ variation of data

Average: A measure of central tendency - or the typical value of all the data together

Frequency: the number of times the data values occur

Outlier:  a value that stands apart from the data set

Consistent: A set of data that is similar and doesn't change very much

Mean: the calculated 'central' value of a set of numbers

Median: A 'middle' of a sorted list of numbers

Mode: The number which appears most often in a set of numbers

Range: The difference between the lowest and highest values.