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In the first two topics you discovered the notion of the distribution of a set of data. You created visual displays (bar graphs and dotplots) and wrote verbal descriptions of some distributions. In this topic you will dis¬cover some general guidelines to follow when describing the key features of a distribution and also encounter two new types of visual displays: stem-plots and histograms.
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Rossman, A.J., Chance, B.L. (1998). Displaying and Describing Distributions. In: Workshop Statistics. The Workshop Mathematics Project. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2926-9_3
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