As mentioned in the previous subsection, statistics involves the collection of data and analyzing it. For the data to be effectively analyzed, they should be organized or arranged in a compact and orderly form. This procedure is commonly known as tabulation.

Methods for organizing raw data include the drawing of a table called the table of frequency distribution. Frequency of a variate (data value) is the number of times it appears in the data.

Definition

A frequency distribution is a tabular or graphical representation of a data showing the frequency associated with each variate (data value).