In the article "Graphical Display of Two-Way Contingency Tables", R. Snee presen

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2021-11-21

In the article "Graphical Display of Two-Way Contingency Tables", R. Snee presented data on hair color and eye color among 592 students in an elementary statistics course at the University of Delaware. Raw data for that information are presented on the WeissStats site. Use the technology of your choice to do the following tasks, and interpret your results. a) Obtain both a frequency distribution and a relative-frequency distribution for the hair-color data. b) Get a pie chart of the hair-color data. c) Determine a bar chart of the hair-color data. d) Repeat parts (a)-(c) for the eye-color data.

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Nicole Keller

Nicole Keller

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Step 1
Solution:
a) The frequency is the number of times that the value occurs in the data set.
The relative frequency is the frequency divided by the total frequency.
ValueFrequencyRelative frequencyBrown286286592=0.4831Blonde127127592=0.2145Red7171592=0.1199Black108108592=0.1824Total5921
Step 2
b) Pie chart
Draw a circle
The slice size (central angle of the circle) is the product of 360 degrees and the percent of values in the category.
Draw the slices for each category.
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Step 3
c) Bar chart
The width of the bars has to be the same and the height has to be equal to the frequency.
image Step 4
d) The frequency is the number of times that the value occurs in the data set.
The relative frequaency is the frequency divided by the total frequency.
ValueFrequencyRelative frequencyBrown220220592=0.3716Blonde6464592=0.1081Red9393592=0.1571Black215215592=0.3632Total5921
Step 5
Pie chart
Draw a circle
The slice size (central angle of the circle) is the product of 360 degrees and the percent of values in the category.
Draw the slices for each category.
image Step 6
Bar chart
The width of the bars has to be the same and the height has to be equal to the frequency.
image

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