Describing Data Displaying and Exploring Data.ppt

Describing Data: Displaying and Exploring Data Chapter 4 Develop and interpret a dot plot. Develop and interpret a stem-and-leaf display. Compute and understand quartiles, deciles, and percentiles. Construct and interpret box plots. Compute and understand the coefficient of skewness. Draw and interpret a scatter diagram. Construct and interpret a contingency table. Dot Plots A dot plot groups the data as little as possible and the identity of an individual observation is not lost. To develop a dot plot, each observation is simply displayed as a dot along a horizontal number line indicating the possible values of the data. If there are identical observations or the observations are too close to be shown individually, the dots are “piled” on top of each other. Dot Plots - Examples Reported below are the number of vehicles sold in the last 24 months at Smith Ford Mercury Jeep, Inc., in Kane, Pennsylvania, and Brophy Honda Volkswagen in Greenville, Ohio. Construct dot plots and report summary statistics for the two small-town Auto USA lots. Dot Plot – Minitab Example Example: Dot Plots of Vehicle Sales Notice that the scales for the side-by-side dot plots differ. This means that we need to be careful in comparing the two plots. The distribution of monthly counts for Brophy Honda Volkswagen is shifted to the right relative to the distribution for Smith Ford Mercury Jeep, Inc. Stem-and-Leaf In Chapter 2, we showed how to organize data into a frequency distribution. The major advantage to organizing the data into a frequency distribution is that we get a quick visual picture of the shape of the distribution. One technique that is used to display quantitative information in a condensed form is the stem-and-leaf display. Stem-and-leaf display is a statistical technique to present a set of data. Each numerical value is divided into two parts. The leading digit(s) becomes the stem and the trailing digit the leaf. The stems are located along the vertical axis, and