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Describing Data:: Frequency Tables, Frequency Distributions, and Graphic Presentation
Describing Data:: Frequency Tables, Frequency Distributions, and Graphic Presentation
Chapter 2
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Pie Charts (Used with Qualitative Data)
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Pie Chart Using Excel
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Pie Chart Example
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Frequency Distribution
A Frequency distribution
is a grouping of data
into mutually exclusive
categories showing the
number of observations
in each class. The
table shows a
frequency distribution
for a set of quantitative
data.
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Frequency Table
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Bar Charts (Used with Qualitative Data)
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Example: Frequency Table and Bar
Chart
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Relative Class Frequencies
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EXAMPLE – Creating a Frequency
Distribution Table for Quantitative Data
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Frequency Distribution (Quantitative
Data)
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Constructing a Frequency Table -
Example
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Constructing a Frequency Table -
Example
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Constructing a Frequency Table
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Relative Frequency Distribution
To convert a frequency distribution to a relative frequency
distribution, each of the class frequencies is divided by the
total number of observations.
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Graph of a Frequency Distribution,
for Quantitative Data
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Histogram
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Histogram Using Excel
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Example: Frequency Table and
Histogram
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Frequency Polygon
A frequency polygon
also shows the shape
of a distribution and is
similar to a histogram.
It consists of line
segments connecting
the points formed by
the intersections of the
class midpoints and the
class frequencies.
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Cumulative Frequency Distribution
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Cumulative Frequency Distribution
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End of Chapter 2
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