Chapter 2-Organizing and Graphing Data
Chapter 2-Organizing and Graphing Data
Introductory Statistics
Ninth Edition
Prem Mann
Opening Example
What is your political ideology? Do you classify yourself
a consistently liberal person or a consistently conservative
person, a mostly liberal person or a mostly conservative
person, or are you someone who belongs to a group called
“mixed”? Pew Research Center conducted a national
survey of 10,013 adults in 2014 to find the political views
of adults in the United States. To see the results of this
study, see Case Study 2-1.
Definition
Data recorded in the sequence in which they are collected
and before they are processed or ranked are called raw
data.
21 19 24 25 29 34 26 27 37 33
18 20 19 22 19 19 25 22 25 23
25 19 31 19 23 23 23 19 23 26
22 28 21 20 22 22 21 20 19 21
25 23 23 37 27 23 21 25 21 24
J F SO SE J J SE J J J
F F J F F F SE SO SE J
J F SE SO SO F J F SE SE
SO SE J SO SO J J SO F SO
SE SE F SE J SO F J SO SO
• Frequency Distributions
• Relative Frequency and Percentage Distributions
• Graphical Presentation of Qualitative Data
Calculating Percentage
Definition
A graph made of bars whose heights represent the
frequencies of respective categories is called a bar graph.
Definition
A Pareto chart is a bar graph with bars arranged by their
heights in descending order. To make a Pareto chart,
arrange the bars according to their heights such that the
bar with the largest height appears first on the left side,
and then subsequent bars are arranged in descending order
with the bar with the smallest height appearing last on the
right side.
Definition
A circle divided into portions that represent the relative
frequencies or percentages of a population or a sample
belonging to different categories is called a pie chart.
• Frequency Distributions
• Constructing Frequency Distribution Tables
• Relative and Percentage Distributions
• Graphing Grouped Data
Width of a class = Lower limit of the next class Lower limit of the current class
5 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 1 1
1 3 3 0 2 5 1 2 3 4
2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1
4 2 1 1 2 1 1 4 1 3
601-1950 26 over
26 30 = .8667
.8667 86.67
30
601-2400 29 over
29 30 = .9667
.9667
96.67
30
601-2850 29 over
29 30 = .9667 96.67
.9667
30
601-3300 30 over
30 30 = 1.000 100.00
1.000
30
34 21 49 37 23 22 33 23 21 20 19
33 23 38 32 31 22 20 24 27 33 19
23 21 31 31 22 20 34 21 33 27 21
Step 2. Place a dot above the value on the numbers line that
represents each of the ages listed above. After all the dots are
placed, Figure 2.23 gives the complete dotplot.