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Contingency Table
|
Dance |
Sports |
TV |
Total |
| Men |
2 |
10 |
8 |
20 |
| Women |
16 |
6 |
8 |
30 |
| Total |
18 |
16 |
16 |
50 |
A two-way table (also called a contingency table)
is a useful tool for examining relationships between
categorical variables. The entries in the cells of a two-way
table can be
frequency
counts
or
relative
frequencies
(just like a
one-way
table
).
To the right, the two-way table shows the favorite leisure activities
for 50 adults - 20 men and 30 women. Because entries in the table
are frequency counts, the table is a
frequency
table
.