Graphs, Tables

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Graphs, Tables Summarizing Data

• Using pictures to explain research findings

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Visual Display of Numbers

• Space is used to stand in place of numeric
  relations
• An extension of maps, which use one set of
  spatial relations to stand in place of another

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Elements of a Graph

• Horizontal Axis X axis
• abscissae
• Independent variable, if there is one
• Vertical axis Y axis
• ordinate
• Dependent variable, if there is an independent
  variable
• Scale
• the relation between numbers and space
• the scale is independent of the data

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Illustration
ordinate
abscissae
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Elements of a Table

• A Table is an organized display of numbers or
  text
• Tables need a title that identifies the purpose
  of the research and the variables that are
  represented
• One variable is represented by the horizontal
  labels another is represented by vertical labels.

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