StatisticsCode 4040
Summary representation of data
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- Classifying data and setting it out in tables, including two-way tables
- Showing data with pictures and diagrams, including pictograms, Venn diagrams, stem-and-leaf and box-and-whisker diagrams, pie charts and comparative pie charts, and bar charts, among them sectional, percentage and dual bar charts
- Why and when each way of presenting data is used, with the advantages and disadvantages of each
- Interpreting data shown in tables, pictures or diagrams