Hand et al. (1994, p. 148) provide data on the number of words in each of 600 randomly selected sentences from the book Shorter History of England by G. K. Chesterton. They summarized the data as follows:
|
Number of words
|
Frequency
|
Number of words
|
Frequency
|
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1-5
|
3
|
31-35
|
68
|
|
6-10
|
27
|
36-40
|
41
|
|
11-15
|
71
|
41-45
|
28
|
|
16-20
|
113
|
46-50
|
18
|
|
21-25
|
107
|
51-55
|
12
|
|
26-30
|
109
|
56-60
|
3
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a. Create a histogram for the number of words in the 600 randomly selected sentences.
b. Provide a summary of the dataset based on your histogram.
c. Explain why you could not create a stem-and-leaf plot for this dataset.
d. Count the number of words in the first 20 sentences in Chapter 1 of this book (not including headings), and create a histogram of sentence lengths. Compare the sentence lengths to those in the Shorter History of England.