Major Lessons in Statistics

Chapter 1: Picturing Distributions with Graphs

    1.1 Identify categorical and quantitative variables
    1.2 Interpret and produce histograms
    1.3 Interpret and produce stemplots
    1.4 Interpret and produce time plots

 

Chapter 1 Class Notes

Activity: Making a Stem and Leaf Plot

Bin Width Demonstration (Rice University)          Bin Width Demo          Percentiles

         Datasets for chapter 1

                eg01-02.xls

                eg01-06.xls

                eg01-08.xls

                ta01-01.xls

                ta01-02.xls

                ta01-03.xls          

                ta01-04.xls

                ta01-05.xls

                ta01-06.xls

                ex01-03.xls

                ex01-04.xls

                ex01-08.xls

                ex01-10.xls

                ex01-17.xls

                ex01-25.xls

                ex01-26.xls

      Tutorial: Data Sets & Definitions (Chapter 1, pp. 3-5)
      Tutorial: Graphical Summaries (Chapter 1, pp. 6-17)
      Tutorial: Time Plots (Chapter 1, pp. 18-20)
     Some Notes from Class

     Video Assignment: "What is Statistics?"
     Video Assignment: "Picturing Distributions"
     Text Assignment: 1-29 (Odds)  -11  +33