NOMINAL/CATEGORICAL only! 

*can group scores.*

Shows relative size of each group according to percentages.

NOMINAL/CATEGORICAL

Height of bar represents size of group- frequencies.

Spaces indicate that categories are not in numerical order- distinct unrelated categories.

CONTINUOUS

*Not a continuous scale because would be infinite- draw a frequency curve to approximate.

y- frequency

x- numerical scale

No spaces between bars

• Scatter plot with regression line
• Contingency table

-categorise each score variable

-data expressed as frequencies

• Contingency table
• Stacked bar chart

• Contingency table (inc. descriptive stats)
• Compound histogram
• Bar chart (using means)