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On your white boards write down:
Quick Start On your white boards write down: What are the five W’s of Statistics the difference between quantitative data and categorical data
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Chapter 3 Graphing Categorical Data
Objective: Students will be able to interpret graphs made from categorical data
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Proportions In data analysis we don’t just want numbers we want proportions. Do you know another math word for proportions? Percentages
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Percentages Practice Give me the percentage for each fraction: 4/5
20/100 Three out of five people have siblings 10/20 Three quarters of the football team are seniors
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The Area Principle The area principle says that the area occupied by a part of the graph should correspond to the size of the value it represents.
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Bar Charts Displays the distribution of a categorical variable, showing the counts for each category next to each other for easy comparison.
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Classwork: Making a Bar Graph
What kind of music do you like? Rand B EDM Country Rock Alternative Pop 5 2 6 1 4
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Classwork: Making a Bar Graph
What kind of pet do you own? Dog Cat Rabbit Reptile Bird Fish 24 7 3 2 10
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Pie Charts Show the whole group of cases as a circle. They slice the circle into pieces whose sizes are proportional to the fraction of the whole in each category.
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Classwork: Making a Pie Chart
Taking our data from the pet question. We will make a pie chart using that data. Step one when making a pie chart is to always use percentages!!!!
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Contingency Tables Blue Brown Green/Hazel/Other Total Male 1 7 3 11
Female 9 2 12 16 5 23
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Get percentages from our Table
How many boys have brown eyes? How many girls have blue eyes?
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On your white boards answer:
Exit Ticket On your white boards answer: What is another word for proportions? What kind of graph do you use percentages? What graph do you like better Pie or Bar?
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