West Coast University Graphing and Describing Data in Everyday Life Discussion

Discussion: Graphing and Describing Data in Everyday Life

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Holmes, A., Illowsky, B., & Dean, S. (2017). Introductory business statistics. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-bu… 

OpenStax Book: Chapter 2—Section 2.1

Introductory Statistics Textbook:

2.1 Display Dat

Lesson

Minimum of 1 scholarly source

• In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials AND your outside reading(s).

Instructions

Suppose that you have two sets of data to work with. The first set is a list of all the injuries that were seen in a clinic in a month’s time. The second set contains data on the number of minutes that each patient spent in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. You can make assumptions about other information or variables that are included in each data set.

For each data set, propose your idea of how best to represent the key information. To organize your data would you choose to use a frequency table, a cumulative frequency table, or a relative frequency table? Why?

What type of graph would you use to display the organized data from each frequency distribution? What would be shown on each of the axes for each graph?

Consider how different distributions might affect the different graphs. How might other variables affect the graphs? How could graphs be made to be biased? If a graph were biased, how might you change it to guard against that bias?