Histograms: Exercise #1

Objective: Visually examine the distribution of average faculty salaries at 50 universities. Characterize the shape of the distribution and compare it to symmetrically distributed data.

Problem Description: Faculty salary values were obtained at 50 universities by Ohio State researchers. The two variables used here are:

University: University name
Salary: Average salary weighted by Ohio State proportions


The following questions can be answered using the histogram Java applet. The histogram displays the (weighted) average of professors' salaries for the selected universities. A stem and leaf plot can be constructed from the data displayed by clicking on the Data button in the Histogram applet or directly from the following data values (x 1000):

64 59 59 56 76 63 58 55 54 59 51 56 71 54 72 59 67 54 55 67 65 54 54 67 54 53 56 70 65 47 52 59 58 56 69 58 55 53 51 51 62 46 59 53 46 59 52 49 66 63