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What type of graph can be used to display the distribution of a nominal level variable?

It is a bar chart.


Where does the dependent variable always go on the graph?

dependent variable always go on y.axis on the graph.


Where are the Dependent and independent variable placed on a graph?

Dependent variable take on X-axis and independent variable take on Y-axis in a graph.


What is the difference between simple frequency distribution and grouped frequency distribution?

frequency is the kinds of the line graph, bar graph, picture graph, pie graph. that's all


What is meant by probability distribution?

I will give first the non-mathematical definition as given by Triola in Elementary Statistics: A random variable is a variable typicaly represented by x that has a a single numerical value, determined by chance for each outcome of a procedure. A probability distribution is a graph, table or formula that gives the probabability for each value of the random variable. A mathematical definition given by DeGroot in "Probability and Statistics" A real valued function that is defined in space S is called a random variable. For each random variable X and each set A of real numbers, we could calculate the probabilities. The collection of all of these probabilities is the distribution of X. Triola gets accross the idea of a collection as a table, graph or formula. Further to the definition is the types of distributions- discrete or continuous. Some well know distribution are the normal distribution, exponential, binomial, uniform, triangular and Poisson.

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