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Unit 2 · Standard 6.DS.6c

🔑 Describe Data by Mean Absolute Deviation — Vocab Explorer

Lesson 2-9 · Learn the words, then practice them

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Illustration of Mean Absolute Deviation: The average distance of data values from the mean; it describes spread.
Mean Absolute Deviation

ES Desviación media absoluta

The average distance of data values from the mean; it describes spread.

La distancia promedio de los valores de datos respecto a la media; describe la dispersión.

Illustration of Deviation: How far a number is from the mean.
Deviation

ES Desviación

How far a number is from the mean.

Qué tan lejos está un número de la media.

Illustration of Absolute Value: How far a number is from zero. It is never negative.
Absolute Value

ES Valor absoluto

How far a number is from zero. It is never negative.

Qué tan lejos está un número de cero. Nunca es negativo.

Illustration of Spread: How far apart the numbers are.
Spread

ES Dispersión

How far apart the numbers are.

Qué tan separados están los números.

Illustration of Data distribution: How the data looks: where it sits and how spread out it is.
Data distribution

ES Distribución de datos

How the data looks: where it sits and how spread out it is.

Cómo se ven los datos: dónde están y qué tan separados están.

Illustration of Variability: How spread out the numbers are.
Variability

ES Variabilidad

How spread out the numbers are.

Qué tan separados están los números.

Illustration of Mean: The total shared equally among all the values.
Mean

ES Media

The total shared equally among all the values.

El total repartido en partes iguales entre todos los valores.

Illustration of Variation: How much the values in a data set differ from one another.
Variation

ES Variación

How much the values in a data set differ from one another.

Cuánto difieren entre sí los valores de un conjunto de datos.

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③ Fill in the blank

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Word bank
Mean Absolute DeviationDeviationAbsolute ValueSpreadData distributionVariabilityMeanVariation
  1. 1The average distance of each value from the mean is the .
  2. 2How far a single value is from the mean is its .
  3. 3The distance of a number from zero, never negative (zero is allowed), is its .
  4. 4How far apart the data values are from each other is the .
  5. 5The way data values are spread out is the .
  6. 6How much the data values differ is the .
  7. 7The total shared equally among all the values is the .
  8. 8How much the values differ from one another is the .

④ Use it in a sentence

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