"Numbers rule the universe" -- (Pythagoras, c. 550 B. C.) Greatly influenced by the Pythagoreans, Plato (c. 400 B.C.) propagated the doctrine of the mathematical design of nature. In his famous work, the Republic, Plato stated that "the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal."	Why did Herkimer fail as a pharmacist? Answer: He couldn't figure how to get the little bottle into the typewriter. Herky's friends: HUGO FIRST ...a frightened sky diving instructor.. SELMA HOUSE ... a real estate agent.
Reading: Pages 9-25. Note that many of the reading pages contain exercises. A nice summary appears on pages 24-25. Do exercises 1.4, 1.9, 1.10, 1.14 (WNIB), 1.17 (make a back-to-back stemplot to compare the two data sets)

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dot plot	histogram	range of data	outlier	center
spread	shape	symmetric	skewed to the right	skewed to the left
stemplots (stem-leaf)	split stems	back-to-back stemplot	template

Be sure your realize that a bar chart is notthe same as a histogram.

LINK TO SECTIONSUMMARIES

LINK TO STATISTICS HOMEPAGE

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Text:
The Practice of Statistics, by Yates, Moore, McCabe. New York,W.H. Freeman and Company, 1999. (ISBN 0-7167-3370-6)

Supplemental books:
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, by Gonick and Smith. NewYork, HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. (ISBN 0-06-273102-5)
How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff. New York, W.W.Norton & Company, 1982 (ISBN 0-393-09426-X)

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