Which diagrams are used to present the statistical data?
Following diagrams are used to present the statistical data:
(i) Bar diagram, (ii) Histogram, (iii) Polygon, (iv) Ogive etc.
Data represented through arithmetic line graph help in understanding:
Width of bars in a bar diagram need not be equal.
Width of rectangles in a histogram should essentially be equal.
Histogram can only be formed with continuous classification of data.
Histogram and column diagram are the same method of presentaton of data.
Mode of a frequency distribution can be known graphically with the help of histogram.
Median of a frequency distribution cannot be known from the ogives.
What kind of diagrams are more effective in representing the following:
(i) Monthly rainfall in a year.
(ii) Composition of the population of Delhi by religion.
(iii) Components of cost in a factory.
Suppose you want to emphasise the increase in the share of urban non-workers and lower level of urbanisation in India as shown in Example 4.2. How would you do it in the tabular form?
How does the procedure of drawing a histogram differ when class intervals are unequal in comparison to equal class intervals in a frequency table?
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