Memorandum

Design4Practice (D4P) Program

To: Instructor EGR 186

From:

Re: Histograms – Button Experiment

Problem Statement

This homework is about measuring the diameter of button using digital calipers and recording the observations in Excel
file. Using these measured values histograms is developed in Excel to visualize the data variation trend. The histograms
provide a visual analysis of data variation trends.

Method

The digital caliper records the button diameter up to 2 decimal places and the values are imported in excel.
Using these set of values a table is developed containing three categories of values. There are three columns
corresponding to team measurements, section measurements and class measurements.

Results

Team Frequency Section Frequency Class Frequency

1 0 1 0 1 0
2 0 2 0 2 0
3 0 3 0 3 0
4 0 4 0 4 0
5 0 5 0 5 4
6 0 6 1 6 0
7 0 7 0 7 0
8 1 8 1 8 0
9 0 9 20 9 25
10 0 10 7 10 4
11 1 11 16 11 18
12 4 12 30 12 24
13 1 13 23 13 26
14 0 14 10 14 9
15 4 15 14 15 9
16 4 16 38 16 35
17 4 17 10 17 8
18 2 18 26 18 30
19 1 19 5 19 2

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 20 0 20 5 20 8
21 3 21 17 21 15
22 2 22 17 22 17
23 3 23 23 23 26
24 0 24 3 24 4
25 0 25 4 25 3
26 0 26 24 26 24
27 0 27 0 27 1
28 0 28 3 28 4
29 0 29 0 29 1
30 0 30 2 30 1
More 0 More 1 More 2

Team
6
Frequency

4
2
0 Frequency
1
4
7
10
13
16
19
22
25
28
More

Bin

Section
40
Frequency

30
20
10
0 Frequency
1
4
7

13

28
10

16
19
22
25

More

Bin

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Class
40

Frequency
30
20
10
0 Frequency

1
4
7

13

28
10

16
19
22
25

More
Bin

There are three graphs displaying team, section and class values.

Conclusion

This homework is performing the statistical data analysis to visualize the data variation trends. The trend in
variability of data values helps in better estimation measured values. The average button diameter is 18.32
mm as recorded by the experiment. The standard deviation has value of 4.44.

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