Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences
Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences
4th Edition
ISBN: 9781319013370
Author: Brigitte Baldi, David S. Moore
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 1, Problem 1.38E

(a)

To determine

To define the individuals and the variables in the data and is the variable quantitative or categorical.

(b)

To determine

To make a dot plot displaying the data given and describe it and also what do the data reveal about obesity in the United States.

(c)

To determine

Todescribe the geographical pattern from the map given and identify this pattern from your previous graph or from the data table alone.

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