Question
Consider the pea data: # peas in pod 2,3,4,5,6 and frequency 7, 9, 5, 3, 1: a. find the mean, median, mode and midrange number of peas per pod.
b. is the mean higher or lower than the median? What kind of skew does this indicate?
b. is the mean higher or lower than the median? What kind of skew does this indicate?
Answers
PsyDAG
I assume that you can find the mean, median, mode and midrange.
Since the mean is more effected by deviant scores, it would be higher, indicating a positive skew. (I get this just by looking at the frequencies.)
Since the mean is more effected by deviant scores, it would be higher, indicating a positive skew. (I get this just by looking at the frequencies.)
blicka
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