Kassandra Crespo Section 018 IB 150 Discussion Prep Page-Introduction to Statistics Week of Oct 16th-Due at the beginning of discussion

n Preparation: Read BioSkills 2 (page B:2 in back of your textbook). 1. What is the difference between a bar chart and a histogram? A Bar Chart plots data that has discrete or categorical values whereas histograms show frequency data and has numbers and percentages. 2. In figure B2.2, about how many students are 70 inches tall? About 11 or 12 students are 70 inches tall. 3. What is the most common height in the class graphed in Figure B2.2b? The most common height in the class is 68 inches. Use the following websites to define the terms below. Please write all definitions by hand in your own words (i.e., no copy-and-pasting). Use the glossary on this website: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm to define the following terms: 1) population -The population is the entire set from which one select a sample to test. 2) sample -sample is a subset of a population 3) mean -the mathematical average of all the terms. Use the glossary on this website: http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/alphabet.html to define the following terms: 5) relative frequency -Relative frequency is another term for proportion; it is the value calculated by dividing the number of times an event occurs by the total number of times an experiment is carried out. -In other words, this is often taken as an estimate of probability.