CHAPTER ( 2 )

Describing data
frequency distributions & graphic presentation
Constructing a frequency distribution steps :
(1) Range = Highest value – lowest value
(2) Find No. of classes ( K )
Where 2K > n
n : No. of observations
Range
(3) Class interval ( i ) = ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬
K
N.B:
Class interval approximate (appx.) to upper nearest unit
3.7 ~ 4 3.2 ~ 4

Construct the frequency table :

Class Frequency

Lowest value By count No. of

+ class interval items in each class
.... till Highest value by tallies
Ex :

65 98 55 62 79 59 50 90 72 56

70 62 66 80 94 79 63 73 71 85

Find : Frequency distribution.

Ex : 65 98 55 62 79 59 50 90 72 56
70 62 66 80 94 79 63 73 71 85
Find : Frequency distribution.
Sol : - Range = 98 – 50 = 48
- No. of classes (K) 2K > 20 K= 5
- Class interval ( i ) = 1048~ 9.6 = ‫ـــــــــــ‬
5
Class Frequency
50 – 60 //// 4

60 – 70 //// 5

70 – 80 //// / 6

80 – 90 // 2

90 – 100 /// 3
20
Ex :
77 18 63 84 38 54 50 59
54 56 36 26 50 34 44 41
58 58 53 51 62 43 52 53
63 62 62 65 61 52 60 60
45 66 83 71 63 58 61 71

Find :
Frequency distribution.
Sol :
- Range = 84 – 18 = 66
- No. of classes ( K ) : 2K > 40 K= 6
66
- Class interval ( i ) = 11 = ‫ـــــــــــ‬
6
Class Frequency
18 – 29 // 2

29 – 40 /// 3

40 – 51 //// / 6

51 – 62 //// //// //// / 16

62 – 73 //// //// 10

73 – 84 /// 3

40 1
 Exercises
(1)

27 27 27 28 27 25 42 48

36 38 36 38 31 36 26 26

41 42 50 52 58 13 15 18

Construct the frequency distribution.

(2)
55 43 78 88 65 74 60 52 41 60 66 85

84 87 47 72 76 89 83 72 76 63 64 68

70 80 72 66 55 56 78 83 66 75 81 70

57 63 69 59 82 74
Find Frequency distribution