Thursday, September 16, 2010

Frequency

Frequency is the number of times an item is counted in a dataset.

For example:


In the following the sample, the frequency of 2 is 3.


1 , 1 , 2 , 5 , 6 , 2 , 9 , 5 , 7 , 5 , 2 , 5 , 9 , 5


Count the number of times 2 appears.


Frequency is important for presenting data in tables or charts, and in calculating probability (relative frequency).


The value that occurs with the most frequency is the mode.