Introduction to Displaying Categorical Data

Concept Map

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Prerequisites to complete Corequisite Support Activity, What to Know, and Forming Connections in Displaying Categorical Data

Corequisite Support Activity (source: 1 and 3 specified as prior knowledge in DC instructor page; 2 implied prior knowledge in content)

  1. Rules for rounding numbers,
  2. Convert fraction-> reduced fraction -> proportion -> percent
  3. Find a percentage from a given total

What to Know (source: implied prior knowledge in content)

  1. Definition of categorical variable (from 1C),
  2. Rounding,
  3. Convert fraction-> reduced fraction -> proportion -> percent

Forming Connections (source: WTK LOs explicitly given in DC instructor page in-class activity)

  1. Determine which variables are categorical from raw data.
  2. Understand how frequency tables are formed from raw data.
  3. Use a data analysis tool to create a frequency table from an embedded data set.
  4. Understand how graphs for categorical data are formed from frequency tables.
  5. Read frequency tables, bar graphs, and pie charts.