SOLUTION: 2. When is a frequency table useful?

Question 178622: 2. When is a frequency table useful?
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
thats a very general question but hopefully this will help
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A frequency table is a way of summarising a set of data. It is a record of how often each value (or set of values) of the variable in question occurs. It may be enhanced by the addition of percentages that fall into each category.
A frequency table is used to summarise categorical, nominal, and ordinal data. It may also be used to summarise continuous data once the data set has been divided up into sensible groups.
When we have more than one categorical variable in our data set, a frequency table is sometimes called a contingency table because the figures found in the rows are contingent upon (dependent upon) those found in the columns.

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