# Stats - Measures

> Source: https://ollybritton.com/notes/a-level/maths/topics/stats/measures/ · Updated: 2020-09-10 · Tags: stats, year-1, school

# Measures
Measures are a set of summary statistics, a set of values to describe data.

## Measures of Location
* Maximum
* Minimum
* Quartiles
* Percentiles
* Deciles

### Measures of Centeral Tedency
* Mode
* Median
* Mean

## Measures of Spread
* Range
* Standard Deviation
* Interquartile range
* Variance

##### When comparing data sets, what two things do you need to comment on??
* A measure of location
* A measure of spread

##### When comparing data sets, what measure of spread could you comment on??
* Mean
* Standard deviation

##### When comparing data sets, what measure of location could you comment on??
* Median
* Interquartile range

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