Prob & Stats Chapter 3

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Across
  1. 1. analyzing a set of data to determine its shape, center, and spread.
  2. 3. the difference between the maximum and minimum values.
  3. 4. one mode.
  4. 6. a numerical summary of how tightly the values cluster around the center.
  5. 7. What goes in the first column of a stem-and-leaf plot?
  6. 9. the place in the distribution indicating the middle of the distribution.
  7. 10. three or more modes.
  8. 11. a histogram that doesn’t appear to have any mode and in which all bars are approximately the same height.
  9. 12. What goes in the second column of a stem-and-leaf plot?
  10. 13. when one tail of a distribution stretches out farther than the other.
  11. 14. data that are graphed far away from the main body of the distribution.
  12. 16. when pictures or diagrams have similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts.
  13. 17. the middle value.
  14. 19. two modes.
  15. 21. the number that occurs most often.
  16. 22. spaces between the categories where information is missing.
  17. 23. bar charts that don’t have any spaces between the data.
Down
  1. 2. a graphical technique you can use to display your data.
  2. 5. a graph in which a dot is placed along an axis for each value in the data.
  3. 8. a histogram that shows the percentage of the total number of cases falling in each category.
  4. 15. little pictures that are sometimes used in dotplots.
  5. 18. the (usually) thinner ends of a distribution.
  6. 20. the average.