For this discussion post, we are going to create a histogram for the following data set:
7, 4, 15, 17, 23, 27, 21, 28, 31, 35, 39, 32, 37, 33, 39, 49, 47, 43, 44, 44, 44, 45, 47, 51, 54, 53, 59, 57, 53, 62, 69, 69, 67, 64
Use this link to create your histogram: https://www.socscistatistics.com/descriptive/histograms/Links to an external site.. Take the data set above, and copy/paste it into the empty box, then click generate.
Discussion Prompts
Answer the following questions in your initial post:
When you enter the data, the applet will create a histogram using what it thinks is the proper number of classes. Post this histogram and describe the distribution. (Symmetric, skew left, skew right? Is it unimodal or bimodal?)
After you create this base histogram, you can use the “Edit tool” and play around with the number of classes, and even create your own class range. After playing around with this, which number of classes do you think is the best to show our data set? Why did you choose this value? Post this new histogram to support your reasoning.
