It's been so long sense I made a histogram:
Lets say I collected data for persons age vs. how far they could through a rock... just an example. (I'm just pulling this out of my hat)
Lets say I had 6 people of the same age that could through a rock different distances.... when making my bar for their age group... would I take the average of the distances thrown? lets say I had age on the x axis, and distance on the y axis.... lets say each person in the age group of 13 year olds each threw a rock a different distance: 10ft 12ft 9ft 20ft 19ft 15ft
would I take the mean of this: (10+12+9+20+19+15)/6 and use that number as the height of my bar for the age group of 13?
I feel silly asking this question after working with complex functions every day... but its the simple things that I often forget when I don't do them.
Thanks.
Lets say I collected data for persons age vs. how far they could through a rock... just an example. (I'm just pulling this out of my hat)
Lets say I had 6 people of the same age that could through a rock different distances.... when making my bar for their age group... would I take the average of the distances thrown? lets say I had age on the x axis, and distance on the y axis.... lets say each person in the age group of 13 year olds each threw a rock a different distance: 10ft 12ft 9ft 20ft 19ft 15ft
would I take the mean of this: (10+12+9+20+19+15)/6 and use that number as the height of my bar for the age group of 13?
I feel silly asking this question after working with complex functions every day... but its the simple things that I often forget when I don't do them.
Thanks.