1-8 Boxplots and Comparing Distributions
Visit the website http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/compare_dist/index.html
and perform the activity. Paste you’re the graph of your performance below.
What variable is represented on the x-axis for the histograms?
What units is the variable measured in?
What variable is represented on the y-axis for the histograms?
What variable is represented on the y-axis for the boxplots?
On average, did it take you longer to click in the small boxes or the large boxes?
Why do you think that was the case?
Was there more variability in the time it took you to click on the smaller or larger
boxes?
What number can you use to measure that
variability?
Below, write a few sentences comparing the two distributions. (Be sure to discuss,
center, shape, spread, and outliers IN THE CONTEXT OF THE QUESTION)