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S2.2 - Organizing Quantitative Data
Organizing Quantitative Data
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Mathematics
Graduate
11/04/2013

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Discrete data are organized
Definition
As observations called classes
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Continuous data are organized
Definition
As observations called classes using intervals of numbers
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Histogram
Definition
Drawing rectangles for each class of data where the height of each rectangle is the frequency or relative frequency of the class
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Lower class value
Definition
The smallest value within an interval class
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Upper class value
Definition
The largest value within an interval class
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Class width
Definition
The difference between consecutive lower class limits
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Open-ended
Definition
When the first class has no lower class limit or when the last class does not have an upper class limit
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Class width =
Definition
Largest data value - smallest data value/number of classes
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Stem-and-leaf plot
Definition
Representing quantitative data graphically using digits to the left of the rightmost digit to form the stem and each rightmost digit as the leaf
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Dot plot
Definition
A graph drawn by placing each observations horizontally in increasing order and placing a dot above the observation each time it is observed
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Uniform distribution
Definition
When the frequency of each value of the variable is evenly spread out across the values of the variable
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Bell-shaped distribution
Definition
When the frequency of each value of the variable are highest in the middle and tail off to the left and right of the middle
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Skewed right
Definition
When the tail of the frequency of each value of the variable to the right of the peak tails further than the tail to the left of the peak
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Skewed left
Definition
When the tail of the frequency of each value of the variable to the left of the peak tails further than the tail to the right of the peak
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