Week 2 Data Presentation
Week 2 Data Presentation
PRESENTATION
Learning Objectives
▪ Explain the purpose and importance of data presentation
▪ Enumerate the essential components of a table
▪ Discuss the meaning of graphs
▪ Enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of graphical
presentation of data
▪ Identify appreciate graphs to use for a given data
▪ Discuss the description and function of the different graphs
Review
Basic concepts
Descriptive Statistics
1. Organize data
Tables
• Frequency Distributions
• Relative Frequency Distributions
Graphs
• Bar Chart or Histogram
• Stem and Leaf Plot
• Frequency Polygon
Descriptive Statistics
2. Summarize data
Central Tendency (or Groups’ “Middle Values”)
• Mean
• Median
• Mode
Variation (or Summary of Differences Within Groups)
• Range
• Interquartile Range
• Variance
• Standard Deviation
Text Presentation
• Main method of conveying information as it is used to explain results
and trends, and provide contextual information.
• Data are fundamentally presented in paragraphs or sentences.
f/n x 100
n= total frequencies
CUMULATIVE
FREQUENCY
Cumulative relative frequency
Is the percentage of the total
number of observations that have a
value less than or equal to the upper
limit of the interval
20
Graphical Presentation of Data
Categorical Numerical
variables variables
Frequency
Line chart
distribution
Pareto Histogram
diagram and ogive
Scatter plot
Bar chart
▪ Popular type of graph used to display a frequency distribution
for nominal or ordinal data.