Max’s 2 – year checkup. Weight 8o th percentile (also written as P 80 ) Length 90 th percentile...

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Max’s 2 – year checkup

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Max’s 2 – year checkup

Weight8oth percentile (also written as P80)

Length90th percentile (or P90) Head Girth85th percentile (or P85)

What does that even mean, Dad?

Weights of 100 randomly selected 2 year old white American males (in pounds)

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Weights of 100 randomly selected 2 year old white American males (in pounds)

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Tell me everything you can aboutthe weights of these 2 – year olds...

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So...what’s with Max’s “80th Percentile”?

How many of these 2 – year olds weigh less than 26 pounds?

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How many of these 2 – year olds weigh less than 29 pounds?

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How many of these 2 – year olds weigh less than 31 pounds?

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So, Max is in the 80th percentile for his weight, because, at 31 pounds, he weighs

more than 80% of 2 – year old boys.

In general, a percentile (or percentile rank) is the proportion of data that a

given point exceeds.

However...

It might be easier to see the percentiles with the a cumulative frequency histogram...

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...or an ogive.

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An ogive you might see one day

(or maybe already have!)