Introduction to Displaying Categorical Data: 3A

Prerequisites to complete Coreq, WTK, and FC

Corequisite 3A (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

WTK 3A (source: implied prior knowledge in content)

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

FC 3A (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 dataset.
  4. Understand how graphs for categorical data are formed from frequency tables.
  5. Read frequency tables, bar graphs, and pie charts.