IB Maths AA 4.2 Definitions
This page contains our IB Maths AA definitions for 4.2. By learning each one of these definitions, you will fully cover the content for IB Maths AA 'Visualising statistics'.
class
A range of values used to group continuous data, usually written as an interval such as ''.
cumulative
A running total found by adding successive values as you move through a table or list.
frequency
histogram
A diagram for grouped continuous data in which each class interval is shown by a touching bar, allowing the shape and spread of the distribution to be seen.
interquartile
Referring to the middle of the data, between the lower quartile and upper quartile .
median
percentiles
Values that split ordered data into equal parts; the th percentile has about % of the data below it and can be estimated from a cumulative frequency graph.
quartiles
Values that split ordered data into four equal parts; on a cumulative frequency graph with values, they are estimated at cumulative frequencies and .
range
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