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Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
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GOALS
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Dot Plots
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Dot Plots - Examples
Reported below are the number of vehicles sold in the last 24 months at
Smith Ford Mercury Jeep, Inc., in Kane, Pennsylvania, and Brophy
Honda Volkswagen in Greenville, Ohio.
Construct dot plots and report summary statistics for the two small-town
Auto USA lots.
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By looking at the dot plots, we can see that the
number of vehicles serviced at the Sheffield
dealership is more widely dispersed and has a larger
mean than at the Tionesta dealership. Several other
features of the number of vehicles serviced are:
Tionesta serviced the fewest cars in any day, 23.
Sheffield serviced 26 cars during their slowest day,
which is 4 cars less than the next lowest day.
Tionesta serviced exactly 32 cars on four different
days. The numbers of cars serviced cluster around
36 for Sheffield and 32 for Tionesta
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Stem-and-Leaf
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Stem-and-Leaf
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Stem-and-leaf Plot Example
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Stem-and-leaf Plot Example
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Stem-and-leaf Plot Example
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Quartiles, Deciles and Percentiles
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Quartiles
Divide a set of
observations
into four
equal parts.
Quartiles
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Quartiles
Locate the median,
(50th percentile)
Quartiles
(continued)
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Quartiles
Quartiles
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(continued)
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Quartiles
Locate the median,
(50th percentile)
first quartile (25th percentile)
Quartiles
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(continued)
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Quartiles
P
Lp = (n+1)
100
where
Quartiles
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(continued)
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Stock prices on twelve
consecutive days for a major
publicly traded company
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Example 2
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50
Median L50 = (12 + 1) = 6.50th observation
100
25 = 3.25th observation
Quartile 1 L25 = (12+1)
100
Example 2 (continued)
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th
12 96 75 percentile
Q4 11 92 Price at 9.75 observation = 88 + .75(91-88)
10 91 = 90.25
9 88
Q3 8 86
50th percentile: Median
7 85
Price at 6.50 observation = 84+ .5(85-84)
6 84
= 84.50
Q2 5 83
4 82
25 th percentile
3 79
Q1 2 78 Price at 3.25 observation = 79 + .25(82-79)
1 69 = 79.75
Example 2 (continued)
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Interquartile range = Q3 - Q1
Interquartile Range
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For a set of
observations the third
quartile is 24 and the
first quartile is 10.
What is the quartile
deviation?
The interquartile range is
24 - 10 = 14. Fifty
percent of the observations
will occur between 10 and
24.
Example 3
Percentile Computation
To formalize the computational procedure, let Lp refer to the
location of a desired percentile. So if we wanted to find the 33rd
percentile we would use L33 and if we wanted the median, the
50th percentile, then L50.
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Percentiles - Example
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Percentiles – Example (cont.)
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Percentiles – Example (cont.)
25 75
L25 (15 1) 4 L75 (15 1) 12
100 100
Therefore, the first and third quartiles are located at the 4th and 12th
positions,respectively
L25 $1,721
L75 $2,205
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Boxplot - Example
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Boxplot Example
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Boxplot – Using Minitab
Develop a box plot of the data for the data below from Chapter 2. What can we
conclude about the distribution of the vehicle selling prices?
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Boxplot – Using Minitab
What can we conclude about the distribution of the vehicle selling prices?
Conclude:
•The median vehicle selling price
is about $23,000,
•About 25 percent of the vehicles
sell for less than $20,000, and
that about 25 percent sell for
more than $26,000.
•About 50 percent of the vehicles
sell for between $20,000 and
$26,000.
•The distribution is positively
skewed because the solid line
above $26,000 is somewhat
longer than the line below
$20,000.
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outlier
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Skewness
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Skewness - Formulas for Computing
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Commonly Observed Shapes
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Skewness – An Example
X
X
$74.26
$4.95
n 15
s
X X
2
($0.09 $4.95) 2 ... ($16.40 $4.95) 2 )
$5.22
n 1 15 1
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Describing Relationship between Two
Variables
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Describing Relationship between Two
Variables – Scatter Diagram Examples
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Describing Relationship between Two
Variables – Scatter Diagram Excel Example
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Contingency Tables
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Contingency Tables
Examples:
1. Students at a university are classified by gender and class rank.
2. A product is classified as acceptable or unacceptable and by the
shift (day, afternoon, or night) on which it is manufactured.
3. A voter in a school bond referendum is classified as to party
affiliation (Democrat, Republican, other) and the number of children
that voter has attending school in the district (0, 1, 2, etc.).
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Contingency Tables – An Example
Using the contingency table able, the quality of the three shifts can be
compared. For example:
1. On the day shift, 3 out of 20 windows or 15 percent are defective.
2. On the afternoon shift, 2 of 15 or 13 percent are defective and
3. On the night shift 1 out of 15 or 7 percent are defective.
4. Overall 12 percent of the windows are defective
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