How do you measure positions?
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Measures of position give us a way to see where a certain data point or value falls in a sample or distribution. A measure can tell us whether a value is about the average, or whether it’s unusually high or low. Measures of position are used for quantitative data that falls on some numerical scale. Sometimes, measures can be applied to ordinal variables— those variables that have an order, like first, second…fiftieth.
Measures of position can also show how to values from different distributions or measurement scales compare. For example, a person’s height (measured in feet) and weight (measured in pounds) can be compared by converting the measurements to z-scores.
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Measures of position are used for quantitative data that falls on some numerical scale.
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Common Measures of Position
Box and Whiskers Plot,
Deciles,
Five Number Summary,
Interquartile Range (IQR),
Outliers,
Percentiles,
Quartiles,
Standard scores (i.e. z-scores),