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Figure 1.1
A spreadsheet displaying data from the American Community Survey, for Example 1.1.
Figure 1.2 You can use a pie chart to display the distribution of a categorical variable. Here is a pie chart of
the distribution of intended majors of students entering college.
Figure 1.3 Bar graphs of the distribution of intended majors of students entering college. In (a), the bars
follow the alphabetical order of fields of study. In (b), the same bars appear in order of height.
Figure 1.4 You can use a bar graph to compare quantities that are not part of a whole. This bar graph
compares the percents of users who say various platforms/devices had a Big impact on their lives, for
Example 1.3.
Figure 1.5 Histogram of the distribution of the percent of foreign-born residents in the 50 states and the
District of Columbia, for Example 1.4.
Figure 1.6 Another histogram of the distribution of the percent of foreign-born residents, with classes half as
wide as in Figure 1.5. Histograms with more classes show more detail but may have a less clear pattern.
Figure 1.7 Histogram of the Iowa Test vocabulary scores of all seventh-grade students in Gary, Indiana, for
Example 1.6. This distribution is single-peaked and symmetric.
Figure 1.8 Histogram of the percent of high school graduates in each state who took the SAT Reasoning test,
for Example 1.7. The graph shows two groups of states: ACT states (where few students take the SAT) at the
left and SAT states at the right.
Figure 1.9 Histogram of the state percents of women aged 15 and over who have never been married, for
Exercise 1.9.
Figure 1.10 Stemplot of the percents of foreign-born residents in the states, for Example 1.8. Each stem is a
percent and leaves are tenths of a percent.
Figure 1.11 Stemplot of the breaking strength of pieces of wood, rounded to the nearest hundred pounds, for
Example 1.9. Stems are thousands of pounds and leaves are hundreds of pounds.
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Figure 1.12 Time plot of average gauge height at a monitoring station in Everglades National Park over a
nine-year period, for Example 1.10. The yearly cycles reflect Floridas wet and dry seasons.
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Figure 1.13
Pie chart of the national origins of Hispanic residents of the United States, for Exercise 1.28.
Figure 1.14 The distribution of fruit consumption in a sample of 74 seventeen-year-old girls, for
Exercise 1.30.
Figure 1.15
Figure 1.16 The distribution of monthly percent returns on U.S. common stocks from January 1985 to
November 2010, for Exercise 1.32.
Figure 1.17
Figure 1.18a
Time plots of in-state tuition between 1980 and 2010, for Exercise 1.43.
Figure 1.18b
Time plots of in-state tuition between 1980 and 2010, for Exercise 1.43.
Figure 1.19 Time plot of the monthly count of new single-family homes started (in thousands) between
January 1990 and August 2011, for Exercise 1.44.