Organizing Data
Math 550 at UNC, Summer 2008
The following files include information on statistical techniques of organizing data. Click on the "Preview" thumbnails to see a slideshow of the documents, or click the "PDF" button to download a handout.
Downloadable Handouts
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| Data Sets |
Twelve data sets ranging from baseball statistics to academy award winners. |
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| M&M Data |
Tabulate and organize Milk Chocolate and Peanut Butter candies by color using relative frequencies. |
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| Sampling Data |
Use tables to compare sampling techniques (convenience, simple random, stratified random, clustered, and systematic) for five samples of "random" rectangles. |
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| Penny Ante |
Organize discrete data in a table and construct a histogram and dot plot of the data. |
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| Sampling Distributions |
Explore five types of effective sampling distributions using histograms, graphical techniques, and stem-and-leaf plots. |
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