Monday, November 21, 2011

Stem and Leaf Plot

http://mainland.cctt.org/mathsummer/josephbond/stemandplots/stem-and-leaf_std.htm

Stem and leaf plots show a frequency showing which classes of values occur. It is used widely in statistics and can help one to see a shape in the distribution of the numbers. It is similar to a histogram, but it shows more. The example above shows the frequency of infant mortality rates in Africa.

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