Graphs and ways of displaying data

Question 1

what is meant by a raw data table?

Answer 1

records of individual data points gathered from the participants

Question 2

Frequency table

Answer 2

log of the frequency of behavioural categories also known as a tally table

Question 3

Bar chart

Answer 3

summarise frequency of **categorical ** data

Question 4

whats the x axis for a bar chart

Answer 4

categories

Question 5

Whats the y axis for a bar chart?

Answer 5

frequency

Question 6

Do the bars touch within a bar chart ?

Answer 6

no

Question 7

Pie chart

Answer 7

shows frequency as a percentage and the size of the wedge is proportional to the category

Question 8

scattergram

Answer 8

used to show the relationship between two co-varibles within a correlation

Question 9

Histogram

Answer 9

displays frequency of continuous and numerical data

Question 10

x axis on a histogram

Answer 10

continuous variable

Question 11

y axis on a histogram

Answer 11

frequency

Question 12

line graph

Answer 12

Allows for the display of a comparison of two sets of continuous data on the same graph

Question 13

what graph should you use when presented with categorical data?

Answer 13

bar chart

Question 14

What graph should you use when faced with continuous data?

Answer 14

histogram or if 2 sets of conitnuous data a line graph

Question 15

when faced with 2 co-variables / correlational data what graph should you use

Answer 15

scattergram