Elementary Statistics
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ISBN: 9780321837936
Author: Mario F. Triola
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6.6, Problem 1BSC
Normal Quantile Plot Data Set 1 in Appendix B includes the heights of 40 randomly selected women. If you were to construct a histogram of those heights, what shape do you expect the histogram to have? If you were to construct a normal quantile plot of those heights, what pattern would you expect to see in the graph?
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