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Section 2

Graphing Data

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Statistical Graphics

Statistical graphics allow results to be displayed in some sort of pictorial form and include scatter plots, histograms, and box plots.

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Stem-and-Leaf Displays

A stem-and-leaf display presents quantitative data in a graphical format to assist in visualizing the shape of a distribution.

Reading Points on a Graph

A graph is a representation of a set of objects where some pairs of the objects are connected by links.

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Plotting Points on a Graph

A plot is a graphical technique for representing a data set, usually as a graph showing the relationship between two or more variables.

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Slope and Intercept

The concepts of slope and intercept are essential to understand in the context of graphing data.

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Plotting Lines

A line graph is a type of chart which displays information as a series of data points connected by straight line segments.

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The Equation of a Line

In statistics, linear regression can be used to fit a predictive model to an observed data set of $y$ and $x$ values.

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