Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Stem and Leaf Plot

Stem and Leaf plots provide a simple graphical summary of a set of data. The show the median of the data set as well as the average and the measure of dispersion.
They are especially useful when comparing 2 or more sets of data.

This stem and leaf plot shows the infant mortality rate in Western Africa.
http://mainland.cctt.org/mathsummer/JosephBond/StemAndPlots/stem-and-leaf_std.htm

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