EXAMPLE 1.7

How do you do online research? A study of 552 first-year college students asked about their preferences for online resources. One question asked them to pick their favorite.3 Here are the results:

Resource Count (n)
Google or Google Scholar 406
Library database or website 75
Wikipedia or online encyclopedia 52
Other 19
Total 552

Resource is the categorical variable in this example, and the values are the names of the online resources.

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