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Merging categories — AQA GCSE Statistics Definition

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GCSE Statistics · key term

Merging categories

Definition

Combining several existing categories into a broader category, so their separate identities are no longer shown in the summary.

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AQA GCSE Statistics · 8382

Specification 3.2.2 · Paper 1, Paper 2

Merging categories means combining several existing categories into a broader one. The frequency of the new category is the total of the frequencies of the categories combined.
Revise: Data Grouping and Categorization

AQA Statistics past papers

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Class interval
Class width
Frequency
Grouped data
Open-ended class interval

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