FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION
Quite often, data come into the office in what seems like piles. Somehow, you must turn that data into information. Developing a frequency distribution is one way to do this.
A frequency distribution involves categorizing data and then determining how many occurrences appear in each category.
The frequency distribution quickly tells you how the data are distributed—that is, what categories hold the most data and which ones hold the least. You can convert the distribution into percentages by dividing the total occurrences into the subtotal for each category and multiply that figure by one hundred; the cumulative percent is one hundred.
Armed with these numbers, you can develop preliminary conclusions. You can determine ...
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