Psychology A-Level
frequency table
What frequency table means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of frequency table
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A table built by sorting raw scores into categories or intervals, totalling each row, and checking the grand total against the number of participants.
Topics that use frequency table
- Handling data (AQA A-Level)
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