5.1 Visualizing Data


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illustrates visual display devices for one-dimensional data

This quantlet illustrates a variety of visual display techniques for one-dimensional data. To activate this, the user should type in the following:

  tw1d()
After this, the user should see the following windows:

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The Display window gives a visual representation of a sample data set already loaded into the computer -- the individual data points are displayed at the bottom, and a histogram is displayed above it. The Choose window gives some choices of options available in data displays:

The beginning student can use this quantlet to explore various data display techniques.