Saturday, March 21, 2009

Stem-and-Leaf Plot


A stem-and-leaf plot is a display that organizes data to show its shape and distribution. This picture would be a good example, except the new housing starts in the USA could be described as skewed to the right because the higher values are more spread out than the lower values.

http://www.uow.edu.au/student/attributes/statlit/modules/module2/shapedist.html

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