Chapter 2 - Examples

1. Which should you classify these as - a discrete variable or a continuous variable?

    a. height of a person

    b. how many people are in a crowd

    c. the ERA of a baseball player

    d. the number of siblings in a family

    e. the length of one dog
 

2. Put the following data set into:

74  82  65  79  88  62  63  73  86  86  53  74  89  70  87  66  80  84  83  82

    a.  classes

    b. frequency distribution

    c. relative-frequency distribution

    d. grouped data table

    e. relative-frequency histogram

3. What do you think the distribution of a test would like (bell-shaped, left-skewed, etc.)?

4. Which is your class an example of - population distribution or a sample distribution? 

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