Max’s 2 – year checkup
Max’s 2 – year checkup. What does that even mean , Dad?. Weight 8o th percentile (also written as P 80 ) Length 90 th percentile (or P 90 ) Head Girth 85 th percentile (or P 85 ) . Weights of 100 randomly selected 2 year old white American males (in pounds) .
Max’s 2 – year checkup
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What does that even mean, Dad? Weight 8oth percentile (also written as P80) Length 90th percentile (or P90) Head Girth 85th percentile (or P85)
Weights of 100 randomly selected 2 year old white American males (in pounds)
Weights of 100 randomly selected 2 year old white American males (in pounds)
Tell me everything you can aboutthe weights of these 2 – year olds...
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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