From the course: Statistics Foundations 1: The Basics
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Data and chart examples - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Statistics Foundations 1: The Basics
Data and chart examples
- [Instructor] Let's look at some statistics tools we can use to illustrate our datasets. I'm in the exercise file 01_02. Suppose we have a collection of data related to a group of 50 college students. In the table, we can display all of the weights of these students in pounds from heaviest to lightest. That's sort of interesting. We could also create a table that reports the frequency of each weight. We had six at 170 pounds, and only one at 130 pounds. It's a bit easier to digest than the table with all the individual data points. If you want to see each individual data point, the data plot might be what you're looking for. Much more appealing than a list of numbers, I can see numbers in the dots. If the dot plot is still too overwhelming, put the data into 10-pound intervals. And then turn that into an appealing bar chart, which we call a histogram. The 50 data points, they're all in there. On this table, I've added…
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