Standard ED E.5

ED E.5 Frequency and Relative Frequency Tables

Frequency and relative frequency tables are categorical data. The difference between the frequency and relative relative frequency is that for relative, you use percentages rather than numbers. The contingency table above is a table that I created for standard ED E.5. The distribution is a data that I created, not collected. This standard make sure that I can identify the correct values that make up the marginal, joint, and conditional frequencies given a two way table. The following contingency table shows how many students at Mason High School play for each sport in the different class. From the categorical data, the marginal distribution for the sports would be: Golf = 15/195, 7.69% ; Lacrosse = 22/195, 11.28% ; Swimming = 24/195, 12.31% ; Water Polo = 26/195, 13.33% ; Soccer = 33/195, 16.92% ; Basketball = 33/195, 16.92% ; Football = 42/195, 21.54%. The marginal distribution for the high school class would be: Freshman = 51/195, 26.15% ; Sophomore = 46/195, 23.59% ; Junior = 55/195, 28.21% ; Senior = 43/195, 22.05%. The marginal distribution focuses on the total of 1 variable. The conditional distribution, however, we are looking at 1 limiting factor. For example: In Mason High School, Freshman that play golf would be 3/17, 17.65%. Freshman that play Lacrosse = 5/22, 22.72%. Senior that play football would be 12/42, 28.57%.