Stem and Leaf Plot

Stem and leaf plots organize numerical data and is broken into two parts the stem and the leaf. The stem usually consists of values of 10 while the leafs will always be units of 1. Like a histogram, stem and leaf plots are useful when trying to visualize the distribution of a set of data. The stem and leaf plot below shows infant mortality rates for western africa.





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