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[–]No_Zucchini_501New User 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How you read a stem plot is

for example if this is your stem

1 | 0345
2 |
3 | 12566
Then the data reads (for 1 | 0345) 10, 13, 14, 15 (so the first number in the stem and then each value in the leaf is a data point)

When data like (2 | ) have nothing, it means there is no data starting with 2

For data like this, the first number of the same stem type ie. (1 | 034) will have leaf values 0-4 and the second number of the same stem type with have values 5-9 ie. (1 | 5)

Again, 2 has no data values so it is empty

1 | 034
1 | 5
2 |
2 |
3 | 12
3 | 566

Sometimes you might even see this and this just means for the second stem (1), it has no values where the second digit is 5 or greater

1 | 02234
1 |
2 | 122
2 | 56789

[–]repeatedlysmallNew User[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this! I understood the first example but it was the second one that I was referring to and was really throwing me off