Cumulative relative frequency
Cumulative relative frequency is the running proportion of the data that falls at or below a given value or category.
Cumulative relative frequency tells you what fraction of the data you have accounted for by the time you reach a certain point, so it rises to 1 as you work through the ordered categories. You compute it as , where is the total number of observations. In a class of 40 students, if 10 scored below 70 and another 14 scored in the 70s, the cumulative count through the 70s is 24 and the cumulative relative frequency is . That 0.60 is also a statement about position: the top of the 70s band sits at roughly the 60th percentile.
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