MATH 251, Probability and Statistics I, Fall 2001, Day 2

Handout:  Stemplot (stem and leaf) invented by John Tukey
Not in text:  Stemplot, rounding when there are more than 2 decimal places?  Handout says truncate (round down), Moore text says round to nearest.  Tukey, the inventor, said truncate; throw away the trailing digits; I agree.  This is supposed to be fast--rounding to nearest slows it down.  I encourage truncating but you can do it either way and be right.  If you truncate, your stemplot may look a little different from the text answers. (A stemplot is hard for a computer to do, but some packages do. For them, rounding to nearest is easiest.  SPSS truncates, which is hard for a computer.)

Dotplot: Note bottom of p. 52, fig. 1.17, use of a dot plot to display a data set of size n = 7.  Just put a dot for every observation at its numerical place on the axis.  Stack them up if needed.
WHICH?
    A dot plot is most useful for n = 3 to about 15-20, or when the data only fall on a few values (just stack the dots up).
    A stemplot is good for continuous data, smeared around; you can do 100 values in 3-5 minutes.



Unless otherwise noted, all assignments are in Moore & McCabe, Intro to the Practice of Statistics, 3rd ed. ("IPS")
Italics are notes to myself--which problem is it?

Day 2 (Mon. Sept 3) Assigned:
   (Re) Read:  Introduction. Section 1.1.  Read ahead, 1.2 thru p. 51.
 
Do to hand in: 
1.22, 1.28 (stem)
1.39, 1.40 (time)
Read, be prepared to discuss 
1.27
1.35, 1.36
Optional
Begin (will be assigned to hand in later)
1.53, 1.42, 1.43 (a-d)


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