Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 2 - Section 2.2 - Assess Your Understanding - Explaining the Concepts - Page 100: 56

Answer

Relative frequency distributions help in comparing the proportion of observations or frequencies in different class intervals. It is used to decipher which class interval has the greatest or lowest observations out of the entire data provided in the study.

Work Step by Step

A frequency distributions simply shows the frequencies of each class interval, without allowing for any comparison. On the other hand, the relative frequency distribution calculates the proportion of items in each interval by dividing its frequency over the total amount of items.
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