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Chap02 - Describing Data (Graphical)
Chap02 - Describing Data (Graphical)
and Statistics
Chapter 2
Data
Categorical Numerical
Examples:
Marital Status
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Eye Color Examples: Examples:
(Defined categories or Number of Children Weight
groups) Defects per hour Voltage
(Counted items) (Measured characteristics)
Differences between
measurements but no Interval Data
true zero
Ordered Categories
(rankings, order, or Ordinal Data
scaling)
Qualitative Data
Categories (no
ordering or direction) Nominal Data
AliF,JTE FTI ITS 4
Graphical
Presentation of Data
Graph
Categorical Numerical
Variables Variables
Frequency
Distribution Bar Pie Pareto
Table Chart Chart Diagram
Hospital Number
Unit of Patients
2000
1000
0
Cardiac
Emergency
Intensive
Maternity
Surgery
Care
Care
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Pie Chart Example
Hospital Number % of
Unit of Patients Total
Hospital Patients by Unit
Cardiac Care 1,052 11.93
Emergency 2,245 25.46 Cardiac Care
12%
Intensive Care 340 3.86
Maternity 552 6.26
Surgery 4,630 52.50
Emergency
Surgery 25%
53%
Intensive Care
(Percentages 4%
are rounded to Maternity
the nearest 6%
percent)
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Pareto Diagram
Source of
Manufacturing Error Number of defects % of Total Defects
Poor Alignment 223 55.75
Paint Flaw 78 19.50
Bad Weld 34 8.50
Missing Part 25 6.25
Cracked case 21 5.25
Electrical Short 19 4.75
Total 400 100%
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Pareto Diagram Example
(continued)
Step 3: Show results graphically
Pareto Diagram: Cause of Manufacturing Defect
60% 100%
% of defects in each category
90%
70%
(bar graph)
40%
60%
30% 50%
40%
20%
30%
20%
10%
10%
0% 0%
Poor Alignment Paint Flaw Bad Weld Missing Part Cracked case Electrical Short
350
300
Thousands of subscribers
250
200
150
100
50
0
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1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
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1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
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Graphs to Describe
Numerical Variables
Numerical Data
Histogram Ogive
24, 35, 17, 21, 24, 37, 26, 46, 58, 30,
32, 13, 12, 38, 41, 43, 44, 27, 53, 27
Find range: 58 - 12 = 46
Select number of classes: 5 (usually between 5 and 15)
Compute interval width: 10 (46/5 then round up)
Relative
Interval Frequency Percentage
Frequency
10 but less than 20 3 .15 15
20 but less than 30 6 .30 30
30 but less than 40 5 .25 25
40 but less than 50 4 .20 20
50 but less than 60 2 .10 10
Total 20 1.00 100
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Histogram
Interval Frequency
His togram : Daily High Te m pe rature
10 but less than 20 3
20 but less than 30 6 7 6
30 but less than 40 5
6 5
40 but less than 50 4
50 but less than 60 2 5 4
Frequency
4 3
3 2
2
1 0 0
(No gaps 0
between 0 0 10 10 2020 30 30 40 40 50 50 60 60 70
bars) Temperature in Degrees
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Histograms in Excel
1
Select
Tools/Data Analysis
2
Choose Histogram
(
Input data range and bin
range (bin range is a cell
3 range containing the upper
interval endpoints for each class
grouping)
Frequency
with gaps from empty classes 2
1.5
4
8
12
16
20
24
28
32
36
40
44
48
52
56
60
More
Temperature
10
may compress variation too much and 8
Frequency
yield a blocky distribution 6
4
variation. 0
0 30 60 More
Temperature
(X axis labels are upper class endpoints)
Cumulative Cumulative
Class Frequency Percentage
Frequency Percentage
10
9
8
7
Frequency
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Frequency
extends to the right in the direction of 6
positive values.
4
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
6
negative values. 4
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Stem Leaf
613 would become 6 1
776 would become 7 8
...
1224 becomes 12 2
Categorical Numerical
(Qualitative) (Quantitative)
Variables Variables
29 146
150
33 160
38 167 100
42 170 50
50 188
0
55 195
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
60 200
Volume per Day
1
Select the chart wizard
2
Select XY(Scatter) option,
then click “Next”
3
When prompted, enter the
data range, desired
legend, and desired
destination to complete
the scatter diagram
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Cross Tables
S avings
CD
B onds
S tock s
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
60
50
40
East
30 West
North
20
10
0
1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr