STA 2023 Section 2.2 Notes: More Graphs and Displays
Stem and Leaf Plot Numbers are split into two parts. The Leaf is the rightmost digit. These must be single digits. The Stem is the rest of the digits. Example: 15|6 = 156. Advantages The graph still contains the original data values Provides an easy way to sort data.
Example 1:Make a stem-and-leaf plot for this data. What can you conclude about the data? The numbers of home runs that Barry Bonds hit in the first 18 years of his major league baseball career are listed below. We input the data into a list in the calculator and put the list in ascending order
Answer: Most of his years, he hit between 33 and 49 home runs.
Dot Plot Each data entry is plotted, using a point, above a horizontal axis. We can see the distribution of the data Determine individual data points Identify unusual data values.
Example 2: Construct a dot plot from the data. The Highway Patrol, using radar, checked the speeds (in mph) of 30 passing motorists at a checkpoint. The results are listed below. Answer:
Pie Chart A circular chart that is divided into sections whose arc is proportional to the frequency. Example 3: A study was conducted to determine how people get jobs. Four hundred subjects were randomly selected and the results are listed below.
Find Relative Frequencies Find the angles SourceFrequencyRelative Frequency Angle Newspaper want ads6917%62 Online Services12431%112 Executive search firms7218%65 Mailings328%29 Networking10326%93
Pareto Chart A vertical bar graph that arranges items from greatest to smallest frequency. Example 4: Create a Pareto Chart from the data from example 3. Answer:
Scatterplot This graph plots paired data sets to see any trends with the data. Example 5: The data below represent the numbers of absences and the final grades of 15 randomly selected students from a statistics class. Use a scatter plot to display the data. Is there a relationship between the students' absences and their final grades?
Answer: In general, there appears to be a relationship between the absences and the final grades. As the number of absences increased, the students' final grades decreased.