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Displaying and Summarizing Quantitative Data

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show Slices up all possible values of the variable into equal-width bins. Gives counts of values falling into each bin.  
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Histogram   show
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show Each bar represents frequency of values falling into each bin in PERCENTS.  
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Bins in Histograms   show
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show Bar or class  
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Horizontal (X) Axis on Histograms   show
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show Frequency (counts or percents).  
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show Sketches distribution of quantitative data. Useful for small sets of data. MUST HAVE KEY (with units).  
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show Graphs a dot for each case against a single axis.  
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Shape   show
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show Unimodal (one mode); Bimodal (two modes); Multimodal (multiple modes); uniform (no modes).  
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show Mean > Median (mean is on right). Tail (or longest whisker) is on right.  
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Left Skew   show
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show Mean = Median.  
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show All outliers are influential; not all influential datum are outliers.  
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Spread   show
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show Maximum - Minimum Not resistant to outliers.  
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Inner Quartile Range (IQR)   show
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show Square root of variance.  
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Mean   show
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Five Number Summary (Smallest to Largest)   show
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show Sample size.  
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Minimum   show
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show Largest datum in the set of data.  
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Quartile 1 (Q1)   show
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show "Median of upper half". Marks 75th percentile.  
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Median (Quartile 2, Q2, or Med.)   show
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show Mean, Standard Deviation, Range, Inner Quartile Range (IQR), "n", and Five Number Summary (Minimum, Q1, Median, Q3, and Maximum).  
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show Mean.  
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show Median.  
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show Standard Deviation.  
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Most reliable measure of SPREAD when shape is SKEWED   show
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show The ith percentile is the number that falls above i% of the data.  
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