APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS
APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS
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ISBN: 9781259957598
Author: DOANE
Publisher: RENT MCG
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Chapter 3, Problem 1CR

Name two attractive features and two limitations of the (a) stem-and-leaf plot and (b) dot plot.

a.

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Give two attractive features and two limitations of the stem-and-leaf plot.

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Stem-and-leaf plot:

The simple way that is used to visualize the small data sets is termed as stem-and-leaf plot.

The two attractive features are,

  • It is a tool for exploratory data analysis which reveals the data features.
  • It divides the data into two parts, such that, stem and leaf.

The two limitations are,

  • It only works well on small samples.
  • It is not appropriate for decimal data and multi digit data.

b.

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Give two attractive features and two limitations of the dot plot.

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Dot plot:

One of the simple graphical displays of a group of individual values of numerical data is termed as dot plot.

The two attractive features are,

  • It is an attractive tool for data exploration.
  • Outliers are easily identified in the dotplot.

The two limitations are,

  • It’s not useful to compare more than 2 sequences.
  • The frequency of a data value is not identified in a dotplot.

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