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In Chapter 2 we discussed ways of collecting data. Once the data are gathered, we must search them for the information they contain. The data are available in the data file, but with so many numbers there, we cannot comprehend them all. Some way or other we must extract information from the data and put it into usable form. This means we need to analyze the data by graphing, tabulating, and computing.
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Iversen, G.R., Gergen, M. (1997). Description of Data: Graphs and Tables. In: Statistics. Springer Undergraduate Textbooks in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2244-6_3
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