Summary Psy7864 U3A1 .docx Psy 7864 Histograms and Descriptive Statistics Psychology 7864 Capella University Histograms and Visual Interpretation Graphical representation of information was completed using the IBM SPSS data set, grades.sav (a fictional

Psy7864 U3A1 .docx Psy 7864 Histograms and Descriptive Statistics Psychology 7864 Capella University Histograms and Visual Interpretation Graphical representation of information was completed using the IBM SPSS data set, (a fictional data set collected by a teacher within course sections, consisting of 64 females and 41 males (N=105)). There were twenty-one variables assigned, along with student gender (females=1 and males=2). Skew A histogram is a graph, consisting of numerous columns, representing intervals having a category of a variable, with the frequency of occurrence is represented by the column s height (Warner, 2013). A histogram is useful in graphing and displaying interval and ratio data, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, below. This histogram shows results for both male and female student s grades within a class. Warner, (2013) acknowledged when histograms are used as graphs