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Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, 7th Edition
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Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, 7th Edition

by Ken Black
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
36h 13m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, 7th Edition

CHAPTER 2

Charts and Graphs

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The overall objective of Chapter 2 is for you to master several techniques for summarizing and depicting data, thereby enabling you to:

  1. Construct a frequency distribution from a set of data
  2. Construct different types of quantitative data graphs, including histograms, frequency polygons, ogives, dot plots, and stem-and-leaf plots, in order to interpret the data being graphed
  3. Construct different types of qualitative data graphs, including pie charts, bar graphs, and Pareto charts, in order to interpret the data being graphed
  4. Recognize basic trends in two-variable scatter plots of numerical data

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