SDS 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Roller Coaster, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Natalie Suleman
4 Feb 2017
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Check to see if there may have been an error in the data collection or data input. If the reported heights of students includes a student that is 170 inches tall (14 feet), maybe that student was measured in centimeters. Check to see if there was an extraordinary outcome. The median number of daily customers at the. Punxsutawney, pa, gift store may be 42 with an iqr of. 12, but on february 2, there were 831 customers. A respondent not understanding the survey question. The outliers can be the most interesting data values. Student height: the basketball team"s center. Snowfall: the great blizzard of "98. Timeplots display every data value on a timeline. It is clear that the summer was calm and mostly predictable while the winter was windier and had more variable winds. Connecting the dots of a timeplot can sometimes better illustrate the trends.
