STATISTICS
tables with classes
Example: We ask 40 people about the number of times that they have gone to the cinema last year, and the answers are:
3, 15, 24, 28, 33, 35, 38, 42, 43, 38, 36, 34, 29, 25, 17, 7, 34, 36, 39, 44, 31, 26, 20, 11, 13, 22, 27, 47, 39, 37, 34, 32, 35, 28, 38, 41, 58, 15, 32, 13
We have several different values and then we have to group them into classes or class intervals. We choose approximately the square root of N classes and the endpoints must be round numbers.
In the table, we have to put the class mark too, which is the middle point of the interval class.
Ii | mark class | fi | Fi | hi | Hi |
% |
[0,10) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1/20 | 1/20 | 5% |
[10,20) | 15 | 6 | 8 | 3/20 | 1/5 | 15% |
[20,30) | 25 | 9 | 17 | 9/40 | 17/40 | 22,5% |
[30,40) | 35 | 17 | 34 | 17/40 | 17/20 | 42,5% |
[40,50) | 45 | 5 | 39 | 1/8 | 39/40 | 12,5% |
[50,60) | 55 | 1 | 40 | 1/40 | 1 | 2,5% |
Σ | 40 | 1 | 100% |
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