Chapter 2
Data Classification, Tabulation and Presentation
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After studying this chapter, you should be able to
understand types of data and the basis of their classification.
use techniques of organizing data in tabular and graphical form in order to enhance data analysis and interpretation.
It's not the figures themselves…, it's what you do with them that matters.
—K. A. C. Manderville
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
—Ronald Coase
2.1 INTRODUCTION
In Chapter 1, we learned how to collect data through primary and/or secondary sources. Whenever a set of data that we have collected contains a large number of observations, the best way to examine such data is to present it in some compact and orderly ...
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