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Economics · Ch 3 — Organisation of Data

How to Prepare a Frequency Distribution?

3.5.1

How to Prepare a Frequency Distribution?

Building a frequency distribution from raw data comes down to answering five questions, each taken up in turn in the sub-sections that follow:

  1. Should the class intervals be equal or unequal in size?
  2. How many classes should there be?
  3. What should be the size of each class?
  4. How should the class limits be fixed? …