Statistics Quotes

“Scattergraphs (sometimes known as scatterplots or scatter diagrams) are useful for representing paired data in such a way that you can more easily investigate a possible relationship between the two things being measured.”
― Alan Graham, Statistics: A complete introduction: Teach Yourself

“There are interesting patterns evident in this particular back-to-back stemplot, but we will defer speculating about them until the next chapter.”
― Alan Graham, Statistics: A complete introduction: Teach Yourself

“Stemplots, sometimes called ‘stem-and-leaf’ diagrams, can often be used as an alternative to histograms for representing numerical data.”
― Alan Graham, Statistics: A complete introduction: Teach Yourself

“A further subtlety of a histogram which distinguishes it from the bar chart is that the widths of its bars (which correspond to the class intervals) need not all be the same.”
― Alan Graham, Statistics: A complete introduction: Teach Yourself