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Chapter 2
Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations
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Undergraduate 2
09/22/2012

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Categorical Data
Definition
Labels or names used to identify categories of like items.
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Quantitative Data
Definition
Numerical values that indicate how much or how many.
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Relative Frequency Distribution
Definition
A tabular summary of data showing the number (frequency) of data values in each of the several nonoverlapping classes.
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Percent Frequency Distribution
Definition
A tabular summary of data showing the percentage of data values in each of the several nonoverlapping classes.
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Bar Chart
Definition
Graphical device for depicting qualitative data that have been summarized in a frequency, relative frequency, or percent frequency distribution.
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Pie Chart
Definition
A graphical device for depicting qualitative data that have been summarized based on subdivision of a circle into sectors that correspond to the relative frequency for each class.
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Class Midpoint
Definition
The value halfway between the lower and upper class limits.
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Dot Plot
Definition
A graphical device that summarizes data by the number of dots above each data value on the horizontal axis.
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Histogram
Definition
A graphical presentation of a frequency distribution, relative frequency distribution, or percent frequency distribution of quantitative data constructed by placing the class intervals on the horizontal axis and the frequencies, relative frequencies, or percent frequencies on the vertical axis.
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Cumulative Frequency Distribution
Definition
A tabular summary of quantitative data showing the number of data values that are less than or equal to the upper class limit of each class.
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Cumulative Relative Frequency Distribution
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A tabular summary of quantitative data showing the fraction or proportion of data values that are less than or equal to the upper class limit of each class.
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Cumulative Percent Frequency Distribution
Definition
A tabular summary of quantitative data showing the percentage of data values that are less than or equal to the upper class limit of each class.
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Ogive
Definition
A graph of cumulative distribution.
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Exploratory Data Analysis
Definition
Methods that use simple arithmetic and easy-to-draw graphs to summarize data quickly.
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Stem-and-Leaf Display
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An exploratory data analysis technique that simultaneously rank orders quantitative data and provides insight about the shape of the distribution.
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Crosstabulation
Definition
A tabular summary of data for two variables. The classes for one variable are represented by the rows; the classes for the other variable are represented by the columns.
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Simpson's Paradox
Definition
Conclusions drawn from two or more separate crosstabulations that can be reversed when the data are aggregated into a single corsstabulation.
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Scatter Diagram
Definition
A graphical Presentation of the relationship between two quantitative variables. One variable is shown on the horizontal axis and the other variable is shown on the vertical axis.
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Trendline
Definition
A line that provides an approximation of the relationship between two variable.
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Relative Frequency (Equation)
Definition
Frequency of the Class/n
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Approximate Class Width (Equation)
Definition
(Largest Data Value - Smallest Data Value)/Number of Classes
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