Chap 4 - collecting, organizing, displaying data Flashcards
2 numerical data types
-continuous
-numerical
define categorical data type
-not a number ans
define numerical data type
-number ans
2 numerical data types
-continuous
-discrete
define continuous numerical data type
-no exact no.
-decimals
define discrete numerical data type
-exact no.
-whole no.
define primary source
first hand info
-she told she about him
define secondary source
second hand info
-she told me she told her about him
define qualitive
description
define quantitive
no.s
ways to organize data
-tally tables
-frequency tables
-grouped frequency tables
-stem and leaf
-2 way table
-pictograms
-bar chart
-compound bar chart
-pie chart
how to do tally tables
-headings on top
-thing on left side of table
-tallys on right side
how to do frequency tables
-headings on top/side
-put frequency in no.s
-used for while collecting data
how to do grouped frequency tables
-headings on top/side
-put frequency in no.s
-put things in class intervals
how to do stem and leaf
-stem is in 10’s place, can be 2 digit too
-left of stem is digits before 10/s place, right is after 10’s
-cannot skip numbers in stem
-need key: |x|y = xy