... more accurate measures (providing you have an appropriate measuring instrument), we call this type of data - continuous data. Start by turning your data set on the variable, number of children, into a frequency distribution. A frequency distribution is a table that shows the values that a variable can take on the left hand column and then the frequency with which we observe the values in the right hand column. For example, it might look like this. Frequency Distribution Table Values of Variable Frequency Number of Children Number of families 0 11 1 12 2 13 3 6 4 3 5 1 6 1 Notice that the right hand column is the frequency with which we find different values of our variable. We found 11 families with no children, 12 families with 1 child, etc. In all we have data from 47 families. You can see the pattern already. Most families have between 0 and 2 children. Having more than 3 children is ...

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