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Negative skew - text messages
Added by Yenka on Mar 18, 2010
In this activity, the distribution of the number of text messages sent by 80 people on a mobile phone plan is displayed. Discuss the shape of this distribution and the relative positions of the mean and median on the graph.
This item teaches:
- about the use of statistics to compare distributions
- about skewed distributions
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