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Mean, Median, Mode. Tuesday 9/18/12 Theme, sports. What you will learn (Content purpose). Perform common calculations required for data analysis. Language Purpose (What you will say). Use the following terms M ean , Median mode. Range. What you will do with your group (PGW Outcome).
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Mean, Median, Mode Tuesday 9/18/12 Theme, sports
What you will learn (Content purpose) • Perform common calculations required for data analysis.
Language Purpose (What you will say) Use the following terms • Mean, • Median • mode. • Range
What you will do with your group (PGW Outcome) • Calculate mean, median, and mode.
Analyzing Data • We will use the following terms to understand our data: Mean, median, mode, and range.
Example of Mean • Turn to pg NOS 15 of your text
MEAN • The sum of the numbers in a data set divided by the total entries in a set • In other words: “Add up all the numbers and then divide by how many there are.” • Also known as the “AVERAGE”
Finding Mean Let’s find your mean running time for the mile over the course of four days: • Day one: 8 min • Day two: 7 min • Day three: 9 min • Day four: 6 min Add up all of the times, then divide by 4 days. What do you get?
Examples of Mean Salaries in sports The national hockey league Major league baseball The National Hockey League had an average salary (2007) of $1,906,793 Major League Baseball's average salary per player (in the 2010 season) was $3,297,828
Median • Is the middle number in a data set when the data are arranged in numerical order • In other words. . . “Put all the numbers in order, and then count in find the middle number.”
Finding Median • Michael Phelps wants to find the Median of his swim times for the 200 meter butterfly today. He swam 13 times and then put the times in order from fastest to slowest. • What was his median time?
But what if…. • (if you have an even number of data items, add the two middle numbers together and divide by two to find the median)
Mode • Mode is the number or item that appears most often. • In other words- “It’s the thing you see most in a list of things. It happens the most.”
Finding Mode • Cam Newton, the Quarterback on the Carolina Panthers football team wants to find the Mode for his touchdowns scored during games. • What number occurs most frequently?
Is Mode the same as Median ? • How are mode and median different from one another? No. Mode is the number that occurs the most often, while Median is the number that’s in the middle of a data set.
Is mean the same as mode ? • The 2009 National Football League season, the mean player salary was $1.1 million. • This number is severely skewed as there are only a couple of players on a team making a salary of around $7 million to $8 million, while a larger number make toward the league minimum. • The league minimum for rookies in 2009 was $193,000. This was the mode since most players make this much. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Salaries
Mean vs Median. . . • As of the 2008 season, Major League Soccer's average/meansalary was $117,299. • The median salary however was $55,000. • In 2008, the highest salary was $5.5 million for David Beckham, and the second highest salary went to Cuauhtemoc Blanco at $2,492,316.
Range • The difference between the greatest number and the least number in the data set. • In other words: “Take the biggest number and subtract the smallest number.”
Finding Range • Derek Jeter wanted to find his range of homeruns scored in a game this season. • What is his range?
Mean, Median, Mode, Range • Please come up with a problem for each on your own paper.