Posted: December 24th, 2016

Nownes (2000) surveyed representatives of interest groups who were registered as lobbyists of three U.S. state legislatures.

Nownes (2000) surveyed representatives of interest groups who were registered as lobbyists of three U.S. state legislatures. One of the issues he studied was whether interest groups are in competition with each other. Table 1 10 shows the results for one such question. (a) Using this table as an example, explain the idea of a frequency table to a person who has never had a course in statistics. (b) Explain the general meaning of the pattern of results.