Suppose we have a population and variable in which we are interested. We get a sample, which could be large or small, and look at the values of the our variable for the individuals in that sample. We ...Suppose we have a population and variable in which we are interested. We get a sample, which could be large or small, and look at the values of the our variable for the individuals in that sample. We shall informally refer to this collection of values as a dataset. In this section, we suppose also that the variable we are looking at is categorical. Then we can summarize the dataset by telling which categorical values did we see for the individuals in the sample, and how often we saw those value
