Statistics
Textbooks
Boundless Statistics
Frequency Distributions
Statistics Textbooks Boundless Statistics Frequency Distributions
Statistics Textbooks Boundless Statistics
Statistics Textbooks
Statistics

Section 2

Frequency Distributions for Qualitative Data

Book Version 1
By Boundless
Boundless Statistics
Statistics
by Boundless
View the full table of contents
7 concepts
Describing Qualitative Data

Qualitative data is a categorical measurement expressed not in terms of numbers, but rather by means of a natural language description.

Thumbnail
Interpreting Distributions Constructed by Others

Graphs of distributions created by others can be misleading, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Thumbnail
Graphs of Qualitative Data

Qualitative data can be graphed in various ways, including using pie charts and bar charts.

Thumbnail
Misleading Graphs

A misleading graph misrepresents data and may result in incorrectly derived conclusions.

Thumbnail
Do It Yourself: Plotting Qualitative Frequency Distributions

Qualitative frequency distributions can be displayed in bar charts, Pareto charts, and pie charts.

Summation Notation

In statistical formulas that involve summing numbers, the Greek letter sigma is used as the summation notation.

Thumbnail
Graphing Bivariate Relationships

We can learn much more by displaying bivariate data in a graphical form that maintains the pairing of variables.

Subjects
  • Accounting
  • Algebra
  • Art History
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Calculus
  • Chemistry
  • Communications
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Microbiology
  • Physics
  • Physiology
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Statistics
  • U.S. History
  • World History
  • Writing

Except where noted, content and user contributions on this site are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 with attribution required.