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Economics · Ch 3 — Organisation of Data

What Should Be the Size of Each Class?

3.5.4

What Should Be the Size of Each Class?

The size of each class and the number of classes are two sides of the same decision — neither can be fixed without the other. Once the range is known, choosing a class size fixes the number of classes, and vice versa:

Number of classes=Rangeclass interval\text{Number of classes} = \frac{\text{Range}}{\text{class interval}} …