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What is a frequency distributions?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 9/17/2019

The frequency distribution shows in a graph or a table all the possible values of a variable, called the random variable, and the frequency or the count of each value. For example, if you had the ages of 100 people you could do a frequency distribution and split the ages into 10 year categories and then show how many of the 100 people were in the 20s, how many in their 30s, how many in their 40s and so on.

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