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Chapter 2 Graphing Data and Descriptive Statistics 1

Graphing Data and

Descriptive Statistics

Pie Charts A sample of 40 students at a university was randomly selected, and each was asked if

they were satisfied with the amount of parking available on campus. The data is

summarized below.

Satisfaction Frequency

Yes 17

No 20

Not Sure 3

To create a graph of this data, you will need to enter the data into the Worksheet. This

can be done in two ways. The first way the data can be entered is in summary format. In

column 1, type in the three satisfaction ratings. Label the column by typing

"Satisfaction" in the gray cell in C1. Label column 2 "Frequency", and type in the

frequencies.

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To create the Pie chart, click on Graph Pie Chart. On the screen that appears, select

the circle next to Chart values from a table. Place the cursor in the Categorical

variable field, and either double-click the Satisfaction column name from the left side of

the screen or type in C1. Next, click in the Summary variables field, and either double-

click the Frequency column name from the left side of the screen or type in C2.

At this point, you have many options that you can add to your graph. However, if you

click OK, Minitab will draw the pie chart using the default settings, which is shown

below.


You can edit many options on the graph by right clicking on the part that you want to

change. A pop-up window of options will appear from which you can choose. You may

right-click on the title, the legend, the slice labels, or the slices of the pie. This will give

you the option of changing the name, font, color, or labels on your current chart. To see

the actual data used, hold the cursor over each slice and the category name and

percentage will be displayed.

However, there are several options that will enhance your pie chart.

Labels The default pie chart will name the chart “Pie Chart of Categorical Variable”. To give

the chart a more meaningful name, click on the LABELS button. In the window, enter

your new name for the chart in the Title field, adding any Subtitles if necessary.


To better display each section of the pie, select the top tab labeled Slice Labels. You

may select to label each slick with the Category name, the actual Frequency, or the

relative frequency (Percent) by clicking on one or more of the checkboxes beside each

option. You may also select to Draw a line from label to slice if desired. When

finished, click OK.

The information will now be shown on the pie chart.

If you want to print the graph, click on File Print Graph while the graph is open.

Once the graph prints, you can close the Graph Window by clicking on the X in the upper

right corner of the window of the graph window. If you want to save the graph, you may

select to do so, or you may close without saving.


In the above example, the data was entered in a summary format. If instead you have the

raw data, each individual response should be entered in Column 1, with 17 YES rows, 20

NO rows, and 3 NOT SURE rows, in no particular order. Label the column by typing

"Satisfaction" in the gray cell in C1.

To create the Pie chart, click on Graph Pie Chart. On the screen that appears, select

the circle next to Chart counts of unique values. Place the cursor in the Categorical

variables field, and either double-click the Satisfaction column name from the left side of

the screen or type in C1.


The chart options available are the same as described previously. When finished

changing any options, click OK. The default Pie Chart will be identical to the ones

shown above.


Pareto Diagrams To demonstrate Pareto Diagrams, the satisfaction data from above will be used. First,

assume your data is in the summary format. To make a Pareto Diagram of the data, click

on Graph Bar chart. At the top of the window in the Bars Represent pull-down,

click on the down arrow and choose Values from a table. The bottom of the window

should now contain options for One column of values or a Two-way table. Click on

and highlight the picture of the Simple bar graph option and click OK.


Click in the field below Graph variables. This variable must be a numerical

measurement. In this case, it is the Frequency. Since C2 contains the frequencies, either

double-click the Frequency column name from the left side of the screen or type in C2.

Next, click on the field below Categorical variable. Either double-click the Satisfaction

column name from the left side of the screen or type in C1. Click on the Chart Options

button.

Select the circle next to Decreasing Y. Click OK. Click OK on the Bar Chart –

Values from a table, One column of values, Simple window.



click OK, Minitab will draw the bar graph using the default settings, which is shown

below.



right-click on the title, the x-axis label or scale, the y-axis label or scale, or the bars. This

will give you the option of changing the name, font, color, or scale on your current chart.

To see the actual data used, hold the cursor over each bar and the category name and

frequency will be displayed.

There are several other options that will enhance your bar graph.


Relative Frequency The default bar chart will plot the actual frequency against each category. If the relative

frequency is desired instead, click on the CHART OPTIONS button. In the window,

under the Percent and Accumulate section, click the check box to Show Y as Percent

and then click OK.

The bar graph will show the relative frequency (in percentage) against each category.


Labels The default bar chart will name the chart “Chart of Graph Variable”. To give the chart a

more meaningful name, click on the LABELS button. In the window, enter your new

name for the chart in the Title field, adding any Subtitles if necessary. When finished,

click OK.

The title will now be displayed on the bar chart.






Now, assume your data is in the raw data format. To make a Bar Graph of the data in this

format, click on Graph Bar Chart. At the top of the window in the Bars Represent

pull-down, select Counts represent unique values. The bottom of the window should

now contain 3 options for different bar charts. Click on and highlight the picture of the

Simple bar graph option and click OK.

Click in the field below Categorical variables. Either double-click the Satisfaction

column name from the left side of the screen or type in C1. Click on the Chart Options

button.


Select the circle next to Decreasing Y. Click OK. Click OK on the Bar Chart –

Counts of unique values, Simple window.

The chart options available are the same as described previously. When finished

changing any options, click OK. The default Bar Chart will be identical to the ones

shown above.


Histograms A sample of 40 students at a university was randomly selected, and each was asked the

number of hours spent working each week. The raw data is shown in the table below.

10 12 15 0 5 42 35 32 10 16

25 40 20 16 24 9 14 15 21 13

16 4 18 22 10 6 30 25 15 10

0 8 12 15 23 36 25 16 24 12

Enter the data into a Minitab worksheet. Enter the number of hours of work into column

C1 and label the column “Hours of Work” in the gray cell.


To make a Histogram of the data, click on Graph Histogram. In the window click on

and highlight the picture of the Simple histogram option and click OK.

Click in the field below Graph variables. Either double-click the Hours of Work

column name from the left side of the screen or type in C1.



click OK, Minitab will draw the histogram using the default settings, which is shown

below.



right-click on the title, the x-axis label or scale, the y-axis label or scale, or the bars. This

will give you the option of changing the name, font, color, or scale on your current chart.

To see the actual data used, hold the cursor over each bar and the interval endpoints and

frequency will be displayed.

However, there are several options that will enhance your histogram.


Relative Frequency The default histogram will plot the actual frequency against each interval. If the relative

frequency is desired instead, click on the SCALE button. In the window, select the top

tab labeled Y-Scale Type. Select the circle next to the Percent field and then click OK.

The bar graph will show the relative frequency (in percentage) against each category.


Labels The default bar chart will name the chart “Histogram of Graph Variable”. To give the

chart a more meaningful name, click on the LABELS button. In the window, enter your

new name for the chart in the Title field, adding any Subtitles if necessary. When

finished, click OK.

The title will now be displayed on the histogram.


Interval Length To adjust the intervals on the x-axis, right-click on the x-axis and select Edit X Scale.

Select the Binning tab on the top of the window. Select the circle next to the Cutpoint

Interval Type, which locates the numbers for each class at the start of the bar instead of

the midpoint. You may specify the number of intervals desired by clicking the circle next

to the Number of Intervals in the Interval Definition section and entering the number of

intervals desired, or to specify the width desired, click the circle next to the

Midpoint/Cutpoint positions. In the field below, enter the smallest and largest values

desired for the x-axis and the desired width of the intervals. For example, if the x-axis

should contain values from 0 to 45, and the desired width of each interval is 5, enter

0:45/5. When finished, click OK.

The histogram will now contain the intervals 0-5, 5-10, and so on.


Dot Diagrams To demonstrate Dot Diagrams, the hours of work data from above will be used. To

construct a Dot Diagram, click on Graph Dotplot. On the window, click and

highlight the Simple plot under the top section, labeled One Y. Click OK.

Click in the field below Graph variables. Either double-click the Hours of Work




click OK, Minitab will draw the dot ploy using the default settings, which is shown

below.



right-click on the title, the x-axis label or scale, the data region, or the dots. This will

give you the option of changing the name, font, color, or scale on your current chart.

However, there are several options that will enhance your dot diagram.


Labels The default bar chart will name the chart “Dotplot of Graph Variable”. To give the chart

a more meaningful name, click on the LABELS button. In the window, enter your new

name for the chart in the Title field, adding any Subtitles if necessary. When finished,

click OK.

The title will now be displayed on the dot diagram.






Stem-and-Leaf To demonstrate Stem-and-Leaf plots, the hours of work data from above will be used. To

construct a Stem-and-leaf plot, click on Graph Stem-and-Leaf. Click in the field

below Graph variables. Either double-click the Hours of Work column name from the

left side of the screen or type in C1.

Click OK. The stem and leaf plot will be displayed in the Session Window.


In this Minitab display, the first column on the left is a counter. This column counts the

number of data points starting from the smallest value (at the top of the plot) down to the

median. It also counts from the largest data value (at the bottom of the plot) up to the

median. Notice that there are two data points in the first row of the stem and leaf plot, so

the counter is "2". Row 2 has 1 data point so the counter increases to “3” (2+1=3). The

row that contains the median has the number “5” in parentheses. This number counts the

number of data points that are in the row that contains the median. If there are no data

points in a row, the counter on the left remains at the number from the previous row.

The second column in the display is the Stem. In this example, the Stem values range

from 0 to 4. Notice that this display contains two rows for each of the values. These are

called split-stems. For each stem value, the first row contains all data points with leaf

values from 0 to 4 and the second row contains all data points with leaf values from 5 to

9.

The leaf values are shown to the right of the stem. The leaf values may be the actual data

points or they may be the rounded data points. To find the actual values of the data points

in the display, use the “Leaf Unit=” statement at the top of the display. The "Leaf Unit"

gives you the place value of the leaves. In this stem and leaf plot, the last data point has a

stem value of 4 and a leaf value of 2. Since the "Leaf Unit=1.0", the leaf value of 2 is the

"ones" place and the stem value of 4 is the "tens" places. Thus the data point is 42.


Measures of Central Tendency and Measures

of Dispersion

A sample of 40 students at a university was randomly selected, and each was asked the

number of hours spent working each week. The raw data is shown in the table below.

10 12 15 0 5 42 35 32 10 16

25 40 20 16 24 9 14 15 21 13

16 4 18 22 10 6 30 25 15 10

0 8 12 15 23 36 25 16 24 12

Enter the data into a Minitab worksheet. Enter the number of hours of work into column

C1 and label the column “Hours of Work” in the gray cell.


To find the descriptive statistics of this data, click on Stat Basic Statistics Display

Descriptive Statistics. Either double-click the Hours of Work column name from the

left side of the screen or type in C1 into the Variables field.

Click on the Statistics button. A list of each statistic that Minitab will calculate will

open. Select the checkbox next to the statistics desired, or deselect the checkbox next to

the ones that are not desired. For the measures of central tendency, the Mean, Median

and Mode are available options described in the textbook. For the measures of

dispersion, the Standard Deviation, Variance, First and Third Quartiles, Interquartile

Range, Minimum, Maximum, and Range are available options described in the textbook.

There are numerous other statistics available, if desired. When finished selecting, click

OK. Click OK on the Display Descriptive Statistics window.


The selected statistics will be displayed in the Session Window.

The Total Count of 40 shows that there are 40 students in the sample.

The Mean of the sample is 17.52 hours of work per week.

The StDev of 10.22 is the standard deviation of the sample.

The Variance of the sample is 104.41.

The five number summary of the data set (the Minimum, Q1, Median, Q3, and

Maximum) are 0, 10, 15.5, 24, and 42.

The Range of the data is 42.

The IQR of 14 is the Interquartile Range.

There are 3 Modes of the data: 10, 15, and 16, each with 4 observations.


Box Plots To demonstrate box plots, the student hours of work data from above will be used. To

create the boxplot, click on Graph Boxplot. Click on and highlight the One Y,

Simple boxplot on the top left of the window, then click OK.

On the screen that appears, either double-click the Hours of Work column name from the

left side of the screen or type in C1.


The default boxplot will name the chart “Boxplot of Graph Variable”. To give the chart

a more meaningful name, click on the LABELS button. In the window, enter your new

name for the chart in the Title field, adding any Subtitles if necessary. When finished

click OK. Click OK on the Boxplot, One-Y, Simple window. The Boxplot will be

displayed.

Notice that Minitab defaults a vertical boxplot while the textbook uses a horizontal

boxplot. To construct a horizontal boxplot, click on Graph Boxplot, choose the One

Y, Simple boxplot on the top left of the window, then click OK. After selecting the data

for the Graph Variables field, click on the SCALE button. Select the checkbox next to

Transpose value and category scales, then click OK.


The horizontal Boxplot will be displayed.






change. A window of options will appear from which you can choose. To see the actual

data used to draw the boxplot, hold the cursor over each bar and the Q1, Median, Q3,

IQR, and endpoints of the whiskers will be displayed. If there are any outliers, hold the

cursor over the outlier to see the data value of each.


Graphical Summary Another method of calculating the default descriptive statistics, as well as viewing the

boxplot and histogram of the data is available. Using the same data, click on Stat

Basic Statistics Graphical Summary. Either double-click the Hours of Work

column name from the left side of the screen or type in C1 into the Variables field.

When finished, click OK.

The resulting summary contains a histogram of the data, a boxplot of the data, the Mean,

Standard Deviation, Variance, and N (sample size), as well as the Five Number

Summary. The graphs of the histogram and boxplot may be edited by right-clicking on

the part of the graph to be changed and selecting the options.


Control Charts The following table gives the number of reported accidents on a certain stretch of

highway over a period of 8 years.

Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Accidents 78 49 62 98 73 162 82 93 96

To create a control chart of this data, you will need to enter the data into the Worksheet.

In column C1, enter the Number of Accidents in order by year. The Years do not need to

be entered since they will not be used for analysis.


To create the control chart, click on Stat Control Charts Variables Charts for

Individuals Individuals. In the Variables field, either double-click the Accidents



click OK, Minitab will draw the control chart using the default settings, including control

limits of ±3s, which is shown below.



change. A pop-up window of options will appear from which you can choose.

If you would like to change the control limits to ±2s instead of the default of ±3s, on the

Individuals Chart window, click the I Chart Options button. Select the top tab labeled

S-Limits. In the Display control limits at these multiples of the standard deviation

field, enter 2. Click OK. Click OK on the Individuals Chart window.

The control limits of ±2s will now be shown on the control chart.


Suggested Exercises

Section 2.3

2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.14, 2.15, 2.18, 2.22, 2.23

Section 2.4

2.29, 2.33, 2.41, 2.42, 2.45

Section 2.5

2.66, 2.71, 2.76, 2.85, 2.90

Section 2.6

2.95, 2.97, 2.98

Section 2.9 Review Exercises

2.104, 2.107, 2.113, 2.119, 2.121, 2.122, 2.128

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