The table below shows the summary statistics for each of the regions shown above.
Summary Statistics for Each Census Bureau Region:
Number of Counties in Each U.S. State and the District of Columbia
Midwest
Northeast
South
West
Mean
Region
Midwest
Northeas
t
South
West
87.9
24.1
83.7
34.5
Median
Center
90
14
75
33
Standard
Deviation
17.5
23.4
60.8
17.7
IQR
23.0
32.5
59.5
30.0
Spread
Range
7. In what ways are these distributions similar, and in what ways are they different?
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6. Use the appropriate summary statistics from the table below to describe the distribution for
each region in terms of its center and spread.
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