10-11-18 Vocab QuizOnline version Statistics Part 2 Vocab Quiz 1 by Daphne McCoy 1 Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) 2 Calculating the mean 3 Statistical Data Displays 4 What are the characteristics of a histogram? Take the mean of the data points. Calculate each data point's deviation from the mean. Take the mean of the deviations of each data point. Find the sum of all of the data points Divide the sum by the number of data points in your dataset. Order data points from least to greatest. Table Dot Plot Line Plot Box Plot / Box and Whisker Plot Frequency Table Histogram The frequency is always on the y-axis. The number of observations (how many times you see that value) is always on the x-axis The x-axis uses a continuing interval of data It is a type of bar graph The bars touch because each dataset is a continuation of the one before.