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Frequency Tables

The document explains frequency and frequency tables, emphasizing the importance of condensing large data sets into manageable forms through frequency distributions. It provides an example of rolling a number cube and creating a frequency table based on the results. Additionally, it discusses concepts like cumulative relative frequency and the grouping of data into classes for better representation.

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Frequency Tables

The document explains frequency and frequency tables, emphasizing the importance of condensing large data sets into manageable forms through frequency distributions. It provides an example of rolling a number cube and creating a frequency table based on the results. Additionally, it discusses concepts like cumulative relative frequency and the grouping of data into classes for better representation.

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Frequency Tables and

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TERMS

Frequency  number of times that something happens


**The key here is that frequency is always about the NUMBER of times

Frequency table  a table that shows the frequencies of items


FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION

Listing a large set of data does not present much of


a picture to the reader. Sometimes we want to
condense the data into a more manageble form.
This can be accomplished with the aid of a
frequency distribution.
EXAMPLE 1

A number cube was


rolled 20 times. The 2 6 5 6 3
results were:
4 1 1 6 5

Make a frequency table


4 4 1 3 2
of this data.

3 2 2 5 3
Number Tally Frequency
2 6 5 6 3
1 II 2

4 1 6 6 5 2 IIII 4
3 IIII 4
4 4 1 3 2 4 III 3
5 III 3
3 2 2 5 3
6 IIII 4
3 2 2 3 2 4 4 1 2 2 4 3 2 0 2 2 1 3 3 1

A frequency distribution is used to represent this set of


data by listing the x values with their frequencies. For
example, the value 1 occurs in the sample three times;

 The frequency for x=1 is 3


The frequency f is the number of times the value x
occurs in the sample.
x f
3 2 2 3 2 Ungrouped 0 1
4 4 1 2 2 frequency distribution
1 3
4 3 2 0 2 2 8
2 1 3 3 1 3 5
4 3

We say ungrouped because each value of x in the


distribution stands alone.
Below is a frequency table listing the different data values in
ascending order and their frequencies.
The sum of the relative frequency
column is 20/20 , or 1.
Cumulative relative frequency is the accumulation of the previous
relative frequencies. To find the cumulative relative frequencies, add
all the previous relative frequencies to the relative frequency for the
current row
Classes: When a large set of data has many
different x values instead of a few repeated values,
as in the previous example, we can group the data
into a set of classes and construct a frequency
table.

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