Week 3: Week Three – Class Discussion
Analyze different ways to organize and summarize data.
The following figure comes from a study of lightning storms in Colorado. It shows the distribution of the hour of the day of lightning strikes during the entire 2013 year.
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Answer the following questions for your main post:
What are the 3 times of the day that you are most likely to encounter lightning strikes?
Describe the shape, center, and spread of this graph.
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d. How many lightning strikes occur after the time next to the first letter of your first name? (EX. Jane: J-9AM, thus, how many lightning strikes occur after 9am?)
e. How many lightning strikes occur between the times located next to the first letter of your first name and first letter of your last name? (Ex. Jane Smith: J-9AM, S-6PM, thus, how many lightning strikes occur between 9AM and 6 PM?)
f. Congratulations! You were just hired by a local weather station to help them with their statistics since they found you are taking this statistics course. Give a brief 2 to 3 sentence summary of what this graph is saying and how it might be helpful to this weather station. Remember they hired you because they needed your help on this so make sure you give them a summary that is useful and insightful!
