describing, displaying and summarising data 2/11

Question 1

What graphical method is used to display qualitative data

Answer 1

Qualitative - categorical data (nominal - binary, ordinal)

• pie chart
• bar chart

Question 2

What graphical method is used to display quantitative data

Answer 2

quantitative - numerical ( discrete, continuous)

• histogram
• box and whisker
• stem and leaf
• dot plot

Question 3

Define: Categorical data

Answer 3

data which can be put into categories.

Question 4

Define: Binary data

Answer 4

simplest type of categorical data.