Exploratory Data Analysis (Hartwig and Dearing text)

1.Distinguish between exploratory data analysis and confirmatory data analysis

2.Distinguish between the rough and the smooth of a data set.

3.What is the defining characteristic of a resistant statistic?

4.What makes the mean (and standard deviation) non-resistant?

5.What are the resistant alternative to the mean and standard deviation?Define them.

6.Define the Location/Spread/Shape of a distribution.

7.Describe what the stem and leaf plot of a set of numbers tells us.

8.What do you need to know in order to produce a box and whiskers plot of a set of numbers.

9.What is an outlier?

10.What is the resistant version of the regression line?Why is it resistant?

11.Describe how we would compute a Tukey Line.

12.What is the formula for computing the slope of the Tukey Line?