SOCS: Box Plots & Stem Plots Judith Loya Julissa Padilla Andrew Crosby John Rebol
box Plot: What is it used for? Numerical / Quantitative measures only Best for skewed data
SOCS: SHAPE Shape: Best to represent skewed data. Represents the shape that the data set makes in the graph.
SOCS: Outliers Outliers
SOCS: center Center: Use a Median measurement of center (outlier resistant)
SOCS: Spread Spread: IQR and Range
Stem Plot: What is it used for? Numerical Data
Stem Plot: How are they made? Divide each observation into a stem or leaf Leaf: Last digit in observation Stem: Contains all digit that precedes the leaf One Digit numbers have a 0 in the stem
SOCS: SHAPE Sideways looks like a Histogram
SOCS: Outliers
SOCS: CENTER Mean if symmetric Median if not symmetric because it is resistant to outliers (graph to view symmetry)
SOCS: SPREAD Organized highest to lowest numbers