Introduction To Statistics And Data Analysis
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781337793612
Author: PECK, Roxy.
Publisher: Cengage Learning,
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Chapter 1.4, Problem 22E
The following display is a graph similar to one that appeared in USA TODAY (June 29, 2009). This graph is meant to be a bar graph of responses to the question shown in the graph.
- a. Is response to the question a categorical or numerical variable?
- b. Explain why a bar chart rather than a dotplot was used to display the response data.
- c. There must have been an error made in constructing this graph. How can you tell that the graph is not a correct representation of the response data?
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Introduction To Statistics And Data Analysis
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