According to the textbook my lecturer is following, a set of data is "said to be symmetric about the value x0 if the frequencies of the values x0 − c and x0 + c are the same for all c. That is, for every constant c, there are just as many data points that are c less than x0 as there are that are c greater than x0"
So, according to the book, when we have
values = [0,2,3,4,6,0]
and
frequencies = [1,2,3,2,1,0]
the data set is symmetric around 3. (Put aside how the value '0' can have a frequency of 1 and 0 at the same time. I'm lost there).
My lecturer has now issued a quiz asking whether the following data sets are symmetric, approximately symmetric or not at all symmetric:
Data set A: 5, 9, 5, 4, 0, 4, 5
Data set B: 5, 2, 5, 4, 2, 3, 1, 5, 0, 2, 1, 4
Data set C: 2, 8, 3, 5, 6, 0
Data set D: 1, 0, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4, 2
But here, there is just one data set each time and never a set of values with an associated set of frequencies, so surely the definitions don't apply? I am being stupid, clearly, but quite confused about what is being asked of me. Can anyone help?
