AP Statistics
Today's Topic: Describing Distributions of Quantitative Data
WARM-UP
Approximate the shape of a histogram created from the following data sets. Label your histogram's x-axis with estimates on the data values.
- The ages of household members with couples who have been married less than 5 years
- The monthly amount of money high school students spend on clothing
- The number of times a 6 appears in 100 tosses of a fair die
OBJECTIVES
- Represent quantitative data graphically (histogram, stem-and-leaf, boxplot)
- Understand key vocabulary necessary for describing distributions
- Describe the distributions of univariate quantitative data sets using CUSS
- Compare side-by-side or back-to-back distributions of univariate quantitative data sets
- Identify important statistics from graphs