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Population

All the people or things being considered in a statistical study

sample

representative of the population

Measures of central tendency

the mean, median, and mode

outlier

a number in a data set that is very different from the rest of the numbers

range

the biggest number - the smallest number in a set

mode

the number(s) that occur most often in a set

median

the middle number

mean

add all the numbers and divide