POLS 3650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Pie Chart, Bar Chart, Standard Score
20 Jan 2017
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Chapter 4: displaying data in tables and graphic forms page #47-72: The importance of data tables and graphs: for most normal consumers of statistical information, a raw data file of binary codes (0"s and. Types of tabular and visual presentations: there are several basic ways of presenting data in summary form these include frequency and percentage tables, conversions to ratios and rates, bar and pie charts, and other graphic images. A good indication that you have violated this property is when you add up the percent of cases or people in each category and it sums to a value greater than 100%. The response categories may be ordered alphabetically or according to their relative frequency: a column of the frequencies, or courts of the number of units within each of these response categories. The percentage scores are the most commonly interpreted pieces of information in a table because they are standardized scores.
