-An important part of displaying data are visual
illustrations.  These visual
illustrations are different types of graphs. 
Graphs such as: pictographs, circle graphs, pie charts, dot plots (also
known as line plots), scatter plots, stem and leaf plots, frequency tables,
histograms, bar graphs, and line graphs. 
-First lets take a look at some vocabulary you will
see.  
            -Categorical
Data: data that represents characteristics of object or individuals in groups.
            -Numerical
Data: Data collected on numerical variables.
            -Pictographs:
used to represent tallies of categories. 
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-Dot
Plots/Line plot: provide a quick simple way to organize data.  Only use them when there is only one group of
data and have less than 50 values.
                                    -Outlier:
a point whose value is significantly greater than or less than others.
                                    -Cluster:
Isolation group of point
                                    -Gap:
large space between data points
                                    -Mode: Data value3s hat
occur the most often

            -Stem
and Leaf Plot: a
display where the data is organized by place value.
            -Grouped Frequency Table:
Shows hoe many times data occurs in a range.
            -Histogram: Compare number of
data items grouped in numerical intervals. 
Order does matter.

            -Bar Graph: Compare number of
data in grouped categories.  Order doesn’t matter.
            -Circle Graphs: Circular region partitioned into sections.  Each section equals a part or
percentage of the whole. 

            -Line Graphs: Consecutive data
points are connected by line segments. 

            -Scatter Plots: Relationship between
variables cannot be depicted by a broken line.


 
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