Graphing

Read these sections and complete the questions at the end of each section. First, we'll look at the available methods to portray distributions of quantitative variables. Then, we'll introduce the stem and leaf plot and how to capture the frequency of your data. We'll also discuss box plots for the purpose of identifying outliers and for comparing distributions and bar charts for quantitative variables. Finally, we'll talk about line graphs, which are based on bar graphs.

Bar Charts

Answers

  1. False
    Although bar charts can be used for qualitative variables, they can also portray quantitative variables.

  2. box plots
    Box plots contain more information and take up no more space. They are therefore preferable to bar charts.