"David desJardins" wrote in message
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Aula writes:
So what are the usual applications in real life?

Kevin posted a good example: giving the distribution of test scores to
the students in his class. It's a graphical representation of the data,
which also gives all of the raw data to the students, so if they want to
know (for example) how many students scored above them, the data is
right there.


Are there any other applications that are used at least in research or
something? While students may like to know grade distributions, that isn't
quite what I was thinking of as "real life"..... What is the real value of
knowing this type of representation of data?

-Aula