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WWatsford

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Explain how using a scale break on the vertical axis of a histogram can be misleading.
 
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The hypergeometric random variable x counts the number of successes in the draw of 5 elements from a set of 12 elements containing 7 successes. The numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are all possible values of x.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Using a scale break on the vertical axis may make the shorter bars look disproportionately shorter than the taller bars.

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