Exam 2: Visual Description of Data

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A medical statistician wanted to examine the relationship between the amount of sunshine (x)and incidence of skin cancer (y).As an experiment he found the number of skin cancers detected per 100,000 of population and the average daily sunshine in eight counties around the country.These data are shown below. Average Daily Sunshine 5 7 6 7 9 6 4 3 Sikin Cancer per 100,000 7 11 9 12 15 10 7 5 Draw a scatter plot and find the least squares regression line. y^= \hat{\mathrm{y}}= ____________________

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The class interval is the:

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Discuss the importance of choosing a symbol for a pictogram.

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Differentiate between a positive linear relationship and a negative linear relationship between variables.

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The ____________________ describes a frequency distribution by using a series of adjacent rectangles with no gaps in-between,each of which has the length that is proportional to the frequency of the observations within the range of values it represents.

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The __________ consists of line segments connecting the points formed by the intersections of the class marks with the class frequencies.

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The __________ is a graphical display providing cumulative values for frequencies,relative frequencies,or percentages.

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A relative frequency distribution describes the____________________ or ____________________ of data values that fall within each category.

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The following stem-and-leaf output has been generated by Minitab.This data has a negative mode. Stem-and-leaf of C2 N=75\mathrm { C } 2 \quad \mathrm {~N} = 75 Leaf Unit =0.01= 0.01 1 -2 6 2 -2 0 5 -1 555 8 -1 420 22 -0 99999887777665 36 -0 44322111111000 (14) 0 01122233333344 25 0 66678889999 14 1 0022222334 4 1 56 2 2 03

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To more concisely communicate the information contained,raw data can be visually represented and expressed in terms of statistical summary measures.

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The cumulative frequency distribution describes the

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The grades on a statistics exam for a sample of 40 students are as follows: 63 74 42 65 51 54 36 56 68 62 64 76 67 79 61 81 77 59 84 68 71 94 71 86 69 75 91 48 82 83 54 79 62 68 58 41 Construct frequency and relative frequency distributions for the data using seven class intervals.

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Class limits are the:

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Which of the following techniques are applicable to quantitative data?

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In the stem-and-leaf display,data are represented as:

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What is the relationship between a frequency distribution and a histogram?

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The appropriate methods for representing the data do not depend on whether the variable of interest is quantitative or qualitative.

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A grocery store's monthly sales (in thousands of dollars)for the last year was as follows: Munt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sale5 7 74 83 87 85 93 100 105 103 89 78 94 Construct a line graph for these data.

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Voters participating in a recent election exit poll in Michigan were asked to state their political party affiliation.Coding the data 1 for Democrat,2 for Republican and 3 for Independent,the data collected were as follows: 1,1,2,3,1,2,3,2,1,2,3,2,1,1,3,2,1,1,1,2,3,2,1,1,3 Develop a frequency distribution and proportion distribution for the data.What does the data suggest about the strength of the political parties in Michigan?

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In a scatter diagram,data are represented as:

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