Chapter 8 Discusses Five Characteristics That Make a Graphic Clear

question 33

True/False

Chapter 8 discusses five characteristics that make a graphic clear and understandable. One characteristic is that the graphic meets readers' format expectations.

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Definitions:

Normal Random Variable

This variable is described by a distribution that has a graph in the shape of a bell curve, indicating its probability density function is symmetrical around its mean.

Standard Deviation

The statistic that quantifies the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; it measures how spread out the values in the dataset are.

Percentile

A measure used in statistics indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

Standard Normal Distribution

A special case of the normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.