Advance Statistics: Self-Learning Module for College Students 1

Advance Statistics: Self-Learning Module for College Students 1

Module 4 Measures of Position

Module Overview
What do you do when you’re lost? You use tools like a compass and GPS to figure out
where you are and how to get where you are going. Well, in statistics there are ways to
figure out where a data point or set falls. These are called measures of position. Once we
know where a data set or model is, we can figure out what to do with it. Let’s discuss how
we find out where data is and what that means.
There are three forms of measures of position applicable to ungrouped and grouped
data. These are the quartiles, percentiles and the z-scores. In this module we will discuss
quartiles and percentiles, while the z-score will be discussed in a different module.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module you shall be able to:
1. determine the quartiles of ungrouped and grouped data;
2. interpret the quartiles using a five-number summary and a box and whiskers plot;
and
3. determine and interpret percentiles of grouped data.

Pre-Assessment
Before you begin this module, you must have answered first the Pre-
Assessment posted in Google Classroom. If you are unable to connect to
Google Classroom you can access the Pre-Assessment by using this link:
https://bre.is/uoXn5fUW or by scanning the QR Code presented. You can
access the Pre-Assessment using your laptop or your mobile devices.

Discussion
A measure of central tendency is a number that represents the typical value in a
collection of number. Three familiar measures of central tendency are the mean, median
and mode. We will define these three according to their applications on different type of
data distribution.

Marvin Y. Arce
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