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Frequency distribution, median and standard deviation

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What is a frequency distribution?
Go to http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top and pick one of the categories. What percentage were the top 5 in that category of the total (shown at the top of the page)? If you were to graph the top 100, what would the graph look like? What information does this tell us if we wanted hard copies of these books to put on a 5-foot shelf in a store? Which books would we choose? What happens if we sell them online instead?

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The Top 5 (16,350 downloads) is approximately 4.7% of the total downloads (347,631) for the last 7 days.
If I am to graph the Top 100 Ebooks downloaded the last 7 days, the graph would be skewed towards the top 5 of the top 100. This means ...

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