Picturing Distributions (Program 2)

1. Histogram
2. Shape of distributions
3. Center and spread
4. Stem plot

1. Histogram - Lightning-when and where it occurs (town in Colorado) - Time of first flash (histogram) - Time of maximum flashes (outliers)

2. Shape of distributions-Symmetry, center, outliers
   -Television programing decisions
   • age groups and which TV shows they watch
   • skewness: right, left

3. Center and Spread-hospital costs
   -classifying diagnoses for payments and hospital stays
   • kidney stone-small spread
   • heart failure-large spread

4. Stem plot-number of hysterectomies - uses actual data - easy to compare

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