Sunday, January 23, 2011

Proof that Statisticians have a sense of humor

As part of my masters degree in education I am taking a research statistics class. And yes, it's as painful as it sounds. It started off rough but is slowly getting better. Thanks to youtube videos I am learning excel and statistics.

Normally, stats is not considered funny but I'm finding a lot of fun in the following charts and graphs:

-Ogives- a rounded curve


from here http://www.rasch.org/rmt/rmt62a.htm










-Stem and Leaf Plots- reminds me of counting in math using place value.






 from here http://mainland.cctt.org/mathsummer/JosephBond/StemAndPlots/stem-and-leaf_std.htm






-Whisker and box Plots- looks at how your data is skewed to the right or left of your mean.


 from here http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/cs255/jnord/boxplot.html