contingency table

"Contingency tables" are essential in statistics for examining the relationship between categorical variables.

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Definition

(technical, academic)A tabular representation showing the frequency distribution of two or more categorical variables.

The researcher used a contingency table to analyze the relationship between gender and voting preference.
Contingency tables help in visualizing how different categories of data interact.

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