FREQUENCY

DISTRIBUTION TABLE

Lesson No.
3

An

FDT is a statistical table

showing the frequency or
number
of
observations
contained in each of the
defined classes or categories.

Types

of FDT
Qualitative or Categorical FDT
an FDT where the data are
grouped according to some
qualitative characteristics; data
are grouped into non-numerical
categories.

Quantitative

FDT the
data
are
grouped
according
to
some
numerical or quantitative
characteristics

Construction of a Stem-Leaf
Plot

Steps in Constructing FDT.

1. Decide on the number of class
intervals k.
2. Determine the range R.
R = Highest Value Lowest Value
3. Determine the class size i by the
formula
i = R/k
4. List the lower class limit of the bottom
interval and then the lower class
boundary.

5. List all the class limits and class

boundaries by adding the class width
to the limits and boundaries of the
previous interval.
6. Determine the class marks of each
interval by averaging the class limits or
the class boundaries.
7. Tally the frequencies for each class.
8. Sum the frequency column and check
against the total number of
observations.

Other

columns in an FDT:
Class Boundaries
Class Marks (Xi) midpoint of the
class interval where the
observations tend to cluster about
Relative Frequency the
proportion of observations falling
in a class and is expressed in
percentage

Cumulative
less

Frequency

than cumulative frequency

(<cf) total number of
observations less than the upper
boundary of a class interval
greater than cumulative
frequency (>cf) total number of
observations greater than the
lower boundary of a class interval

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SEATWORK:
1.

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91
30
23
67

Given the ff. scores of 50 students in the Final

Examination in Statistics:
41 65 32
44 63 88 76 47
21
56 11 24 35 76 82 53 49 55
62 14 9 78 33 87 34 89 73
46 71 50 36 99 79 54 76 70
92 48 82 67 90 87 47 39 44

Construct an FDT. Use 20 intervals.

Construct
a
Frequency
Polygon,
histogram and Ogives.