Stem-And-Leaf Display

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Description

It is an alternative to the histogram. The leading digit is the stem and the trailing digit is the leaf. The advantage over the histogram are:

The identity of each observation is not lost

The digit themselves give a picture of the distribution

The cumulative frequencies are also shown.

Concept Prerequisite

Wikipedia Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem-and-leaf display

Learning Material

Covered in Topic(s)

 
Descriptive Statistics (Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion)