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Describing Data: Frequency Distributions and Graphic Presentation


Some of the study materials included here are excerpted from the Student Study Guide written by Kathleen Whitcomb of University of South Carolina, which is also in print for purchase. Ask your instructor and/or bookstore to order copies -use ISBN 0073030333­.

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  1. Organize qualitative data into a frequency table.
  2. Present a frequency table as a bar chart or pie chart.
  3. Organize quantitative data into a frequency distribution.
  4. Present a frequency distribution for quantitative data using histograms, frequency polygons, and cumulative frequency polygons.








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