Two-way table
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A glossary of terms used in mathematics.
Two-way table
A table in which the rows represent the categories for one category variable, the columns represent the categories of a second category variable and each cell displays the frequency (or proportion) resulting for that row and column combination for the two variables.
Example
Data were collected from answers to an online questionnaire from 727 students enrolled in an introductory Statistics course at the University of Auckland. Two of the variables of interest are the gender of the student and the course in which they which they were enrolled (STATS 101, STATS 102 or STATS 108). The following two-way table was formed by counting the number of students falling into each combination of categories of the two variables.
Gender |
Course |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
101 |
102 |
108 |
Total |
|
Female |
218 |
50 |
157 |
425 |
|
Male |
141 |
18 |
143 |
302 |
|
Total |
359 |
68 |
300 |
727 |
|
Alternative: contingency table
Curriculum achievement objectives references
Probability: Levels 7, 8.
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