The photographs below show ten brilliant Advanced Placement Statistics students at Cate School. A distribution that is skewed to the left. A distribution that is skewed to the left. A symmetric distribution.
Statistics is the science of gaining information from numerical data.
Statistical tools, such as graphing, can be helpful in examining data in order to describe their main features. The shape of data is important. Graphs present a good way to demonstrate shape. Characteristic of an individual. Tells what values variable assumes and how often it takes these values.