Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Comparing Distributions

In the case of more than one graph, it makes sense to compare distributions of the same random variable. For example, we could compare the number of times girls can hop on one foot in a minute to the number of times boys could hop on one foot in a minute in terms of center, shape, spread, and outliers (CUSS). We did this today in class with two stem-and-leaf plots. Make sure to use comparative language such as "greater than," "smaller than," etc. and keep it in the context of the problem.

Shout out to Deja Collins for figuring out why it's not appropriate to CUSS when we're looking at a bar graph. Remember, you can only CUSS about QUANTitative data! Nice work!

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