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BUSINESS STATISTICS

A Dot Plot, also called a dot chart or strip plot, is a type of simple histogram-like chart used
in statistics for relatively small data sets where values fall into a number of discrete bins
(categories). A dot plot is similar to a bar graph because the height of each “bar” of dots is
equal to the number of items in a particular category. To draw a dot plot, count the number
of data points falling in each bin (What is a BIN in statistics?) and draw a stack of dots that
number high for each bin.

A dot plot is a graphical display of data using dots. A good example would be the choice of
foods that you and your friends ate for snacks. The illustration below shows a plot for
a random sample of integers.
In a table chart it looks like this:

In a Dot Plot, it looks like this:

Simple plot showing the types of foods a group of friends eats.

To analyze this chart, the idea is that there are four of you eating snacks together. The
choices for the snacks are: pizza, burger, fries and pasta. With the Dot Plot, it indicates that
all of you have chosen pizza. In addition, three others in your group added a burger to their
snack plate. This chart goes on to identify that two people in your group have added fries,
and one in your group has added pasta to his or her meal.
The dots don’t have to be in a largest to highest order though. They can also be in a random
order, like this next dotplot shows:

In Summary

In summary, a Dot Plot is a graph for displaying the distribution of numerical variables
where each dot represents a value. For whole numbers, if a value occurs more than once,
the dots are placed one above the other so that the height of the column of dots represents
the frequency for that value.

A plot where each data value is split into a "leaf" (usually the last digit) and a "stem" (the
other digits).

For example "32" is split into "3" (stem) and "2" (leaf).

The "stem" values are listed down, and the "leaf" values are listed next to them.

This way the "stem" groups the scores and each "leaf" indicates a score within that group.