Collecting data from a large number of participants can be a very daunting task. How do researchers make sense of all of that information and summarize it to be more meaningful? One way is by creating frequency distributions or by visually organizing the number of times each score in a data set occurs. Researchers present the frequencydistributionin a table as a way to organize large amounts of data. You will also see frequency distributions displayed graphically using histograms bar graphs or frequency polygons.
This Application will allow you to practice organizing a data set by calculating and describing the frequency relative frequency and percent of the number of snacks 30 people eat in a week.
You will also be asked to document that you have installed and tested the SPSS software that you will begin using in Week 2. Be sure to watch this weeks instructional videos in the Resources Folder before beginning your Application Assignment.
Assignment 1 Part I: Download the data table template found in this weeks Learning Resources folder and the data set that you will use for this Assignment from the Weekly Data Set forum found on the course navigation menu. Fill in the cells of the table by listing the frequency of each value from the data set the relative frequency of each value and the percent of each value. Your computed relative frequency and percent might not equal exactly 1.0 and 100% respectively due to rounding error. Then respond to the following:
Weekly Data Post
Number of Snacks Eaten This Week