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(Descriptive Statistics) - 2 - Histograms For Grouped Data

The document discusses how to construct a histogram from a data set by breaking the data into classes and counting the frequency of observations in each class. It provides an example of drawing a histogram from a sample data set using an initial class boundary and class width to determine the classes.

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(Descriptive Statistics) - 2 - Histograms For Grouped Data

The document discusses how to construct a histogram from a data set by breaking the data into classes and counting the frequency of observations in each class. It provides an example of drawing a histogram from a sample data set using an initial class boundary and class width to determine the classes.

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ALEKS 22/03/20 15(31

Student Name:Marco
Marco Antonio Fragoso Gonzalez
Date:03/22/2020
03/22/2020

Descriptive Statistics

Histograms for grouped data


Sample Question

62, 82, 79, 76, 73, 70, 67, 64, 75, 75, 72, 72, 69, 69.
Draw the histogram for these data using an initial class boundary of 61.5 and a class width of 6. Note that you
can add or remove classes from the figure. Label each class with its endpoints.

Frequency

7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0 0 0 0
0

Height (in inches)

Explanation

A histogram is a graphical summary of a frequency distribution of a data set, that is, it is a summary of classes
(groups) of data values and the frequencies for those classes. When constructing a histogram for a data set, it is
necessary to break up the range of data values into classes and to count the number of observations that fall
into each class.

The histogram for the data set in this problem is required to have an initial class boundary of 61.5 and a class
width of 6. The initial class boundary is the left endpoint of the first class, and the class width is the width of the
interval defining each class. To construct the classes, then, we can start with 61.5 and continue to add 6 until
the highest observation is covered. The resulting break-up will determine the classes. In order to see what the
highest measurement is, we can sort the data.

62, 64, 67, 69, 69, 70, 72, 72, 73, 75, 75, 76, 79, 82

The highest measurement is 82. Therefore, the classes are as follows.

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This means the first class includes the Height (in inches) Frequency
61.5 up to 67.5 lower boundary 61.5, but not the upper 61.5 up to 67.5 3
boundary 67.5. 67.5 up to 73.5 6
67.5 up to 73.5 73.5 up to 79.5 4
73.5 up to 79.5 79.5 up to 85.5 1
79.5 up to 85.5 Table 1

Now we need to determine the frequency for each class, that is, we need to find the number of measurements
that fall within each class. These frequencies are easily determined using the sorted data above and are
displayed in Table 1.

In a histogram, classes are displayed on the horizontal axis, and class frequencies are displayed on the vertical
axis. The histogram consists of rectangles whose widths indicate the classes and whose heights indicate the
class frequencies. Classes are labeled by their left and right endpoints (though sometimes the midpoints are
used instead).

Using Table 1, we draw the histogram for the data set given in the problem.

Answer

Frequency

7
6
6
5
4
4
3
3
2
1
1
0
61.5 67.5 73.5 79.5 85.5
Height (in inches)

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