Frequency Distributions

Randall Schumacker and Sara Tomek
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Randall Schumacker: University of Alabama
Sara Tomek: University of Alabama

Chapter Chapter 4 in Understanding Statistics Using R, 2013, pp 55-73 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A histogram is a graph of a frequency distribution of numerical data for different categories of events, individuals, or objects. A frequency distribution indicates the individual number of events, individuals, or objects in the separate categories. Most people easily understand histograms because they resemble bar graphs often seen in newspapers and magazines. An ogive is a graph of a cumulative frequency distribution of numerical data from the histogram. A cumulative frequency distribution indicates the successive addition of the number of events, individuals, or objects in the different categories of the histogram, which always sums to 100. An ogive graph displays numerical data in an S-shaped curve with increasing numbers or percentages that eventually reach 100 %. Because cumulative frequency distributions are rarely used in newspapers and magazines, most people never see them. Frequency data from a histogram, however, can easily be displayed in a cumulative frequency ogive.

Keywords: Relative Frequency; Student Grade; Decimal Place; Cumulative Frequency; Combine Population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6227-9_4

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