The Median https://www.varsitytutors.com/hotmath/hotmath_help/topics/median.html
What is the median of a data set? Why must we order the data from least to greatest? How do we account for data sets with an even number of points? Quartiles https://www.varsitytutors.com/hotmath/hotmath_help/topics/quartiles.html Quartile 1 separates what percentage of the ranked data? Which has a greater value, Q1 or Q3? Contrast the processes of finding the quartiles of a data set with an even number of points versus an odd number of points. Predict where Q2 will lie. IQR and Outliers http://www.purplemath.com/modules/boxwhisk3.htm How do we calculate the interquartile range? Describe how far a data point must be from Q1 or Q3 to be considered an outlier. Defend this classification of outliers. Reading Box Plots http://www.imathas.com/stattools/boxplot.html Visit the above link. Enter some reasonable data points and click “Draw Here”. Right click (Ctrl+Click on Mac) on the resulting image and save it to your computer. Open the image with a basic image editor such as Preview or Microsoft Paint. Using a pencil, brush, or textbox tool, label the following on the image: Minimum, Maximum, Median, Q1, Q3. Save the newly labeled image. Insert the labeled image in the blank table cell below.
Visit http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/RainForest.html. Find the ages of the Gawimasi Village men in the second column. Enter these villagers’ ages into the above linked Alcula Box Plot Calculator (separated by commas). What is the median age of the villager men? Q1? Q3? IQR? As seen in the Rain Forest data table above, the youngest villager boy is 3 years old. Argue whether or not he should be considered an outlier in spite of the definition we learned previously.