Module 8: Background You’ll Need 3

  • Calculate sample proportions.

Proportions

Let’s explore the School_Diversity data set.

The spreadsheet contains school diversity data from [latex]28[/latex] school districts in Nebraska. The data make up a subset of the larger data set about school diversity.

Proportion is a ratio between the number of times an event of interest occurred divided by the total.

Proportion in statistics is mostly known as the relative frequency of an event.

Proportion can be written in fractions, decimals, or percentages.