How might frequency bring meaning to data?

Students analyze frequency in categorical data.

Frequency can be compared across categories to answer statistical questions.

The mode is the category with the highest frequency.

Data can be collected by asking closed-list and open-ended questions.

Closed-list questions provide a list of possible responses to choose from.

Open-ended questions allow any response.

Responses can be categorized in various ways.

Representations of frequency can include

• bar graphs

• dot plots

• stem-and-leaf plots

Frequency is a count of categorized data, but it is not the data value itself.

Frequency can be a count of categorized responses to a question.

Frequency can be used to summarize data.

Frequency can be represented in various forms.