The paper ?State-Level Cancer Mortality Attributable to Cigarette Smoking in the United States? (JAMA Internal Medicine [2016]:
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The paper ?State-Level Cancer Mortality Attributable to Cigarette Smoking in the United States? (JAMA Internal Medicine [2016]: 1792?1798) included the following state estimates of the total number cancer deaths attributable to cigarette smoking in 2014.?
a. Construct a stem-and-leaf display using thousands as the stems and truncating the leaves to the tens digit.?
b. Write a few sentences describing the shape of the distribution and any unusual observations.?
c. The four largest values were for California, Texas, Florida, and New York. Does this indicate that cancer deaths due to cigarette smoking is more of a problem in these states than elsewhere? Explain.?
d. If you wanted to compare states on the basis of the cancer deaths due to cigarette smoking, would you use the data in the given table? If yes, explain why this would be reasonable. If no, what would you use instead as the basis for the comparison?
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