Summary and Descriptive Statistics

Mean

The mean value represents the average number of people per 100,000 diagnosed with cancer in the year 2000- 2015. The mean value for the ethnic group of American Indian / Alaska Native (includes Hispanic) is 43.27, the mean value of Asian / Pacific Islander (includes Hispanic) group is 25.51, the mean value of Black (includes Hispanic) group is 70.06. The mean of the Hispanic (any race) group is 31.49 and the mean of the White (includes Hispanic) group is 62.72.

Median

The median or the mid-value for the American Indian / Alaska Native (includes Hispanic) is 43.85, the mean value of the Asian / Pacific Islander (includes Hispanic) group is 38.9, and that of the Black (includes Hispanic) group is 71.4. The mean of Hispanic (any race) is 31.1 and that of White (includes Hispanic) group is 64.55.

Mode

Mode is the commonly observed values of the given data. For the ethnic groups of American Indian / Alaska Native (includes Hispanic) and Black (includes Hispanic), all values are unique so there is no mode value. The mode for Asian / Pacific Islanders (includes Hispanic) is 36.6, for Hispanic (any race) the mode is 34.1, and for White (includes Hispanic) mode is 65.8.

Standard Deviation

For the given data standard deviation shows how much the values are dispersed from the mean value. The standard deviation for the American Indian / Alaska Native (includes Hispanic) group is 5.2, for the Asian / Pacific Islander (includes Hispanic) group it is 2.38. The standard deviation for the Black (includes Hispanic) group is 6.7. The standard deviation of the Hispanic (any race) group is 2.89 and the value for the White (includes Hispanic) group is 5.11.

The lower value of the Asian / Pacific Islander (includes Hispanic) group suggests that there is less deviation, and the values are clustered around the mean value. A higher standard deviation value like that of the Black (includes Hispanic) group shows that the values are more dispersed from the mean value.