Frequency is how often something occurs.
Examples
- Sunday Afternoon
- Monday Morning
- Monday Afternoon
The frequency was 1 on Sunday, 2 on Monday and 3 for the whole week.
Definition of Frequency Distribution
We can make a Frequency Distribution table by counting frequencies.
Example: Eat
The amount of Apple that John has eaten every day in 15 days.
3, 2, 4, 3, 4, 2, 3, 2, 1, 5, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1
Put the numbers in order, then added up:
- how often 1 occurs (3 times),
- how often 2 occurs (4 times),
- etc,
and wrote them down as a Frequency Distribution table.
| Amount | Frequency |
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 |
From the table we can see interesting things such as
- Eating 3 apples happens most often
- only once did he eat 5 apples
So, Frequency Distribution means: values and their frequency (how often each value occurs).