Solved Questions

A positively skewed distribution has a tail stretching out to the right. (T or F)

The endpoints of an interval are called ________.

The primary purpose of plotting data is to make them ________.

I have been (correctly) criticized for using "the number of hairs on a goat" as an example of a continuous variable in an earlier edition of this book. Why is this really a discrete variable? Would this alter how you treat the data?

We saw that we often treat a discrete variable as if it were continuous. Under what conditions would we be likely to do so?