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Analysis of words per sentence in differeent Newspapers.
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ANALYSIS OF WORDS PER SENTENCE HISTOGRAMS My histograms are pictorial representations of my data and they give a sense of distribution. They are qualitative descriptions of my data and allow me to see if my data is skewed or not. * The Times shows no signs of skewness and have no peculiarities. * The Express also shows no signs of skewness and have no peculiarities. * The Mirror is slightly positively skewed. This means that there are more small values than large values. However, there are no peculiarities in my results. CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY POLYGONS Cumulative frequency polygons are used to work out accurate quartiles (lower quartile, upper quartile and the median) and the inter-quartile range, which allowed me to work out the spread of data. In order of increasing inter-quartile range The Times The Express The Mirror * The Times has the smallest inter-quartile range. This means that the data is less in the middle and more spread out...
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