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Table Examples

Table Examples

  • Choose one of the tables below and try to answer the following:
  • What are the conventions of this table?
    • What values are we comparing?
    • What are the rows?
    • What are the columns?
  • Is it easy to answer the questions?
  • What made it easy?

Table 1 Example

Questions that we can answer
  • What groups are we comparing?
  • How many subjects were in the Drug A group?
  • What was the mean age of participant in the Drug B Group?
  • How many subjects have Tumor Response Information?
  • Is the p-value between Age for Drug A and Drug B groups significant?

Financial Tables

Questions we can answer from this table
  • What is the total revenue for 2Q`21?
  • What quarter did we see the highest net income?
  • Which region had the highest revenue across all quarters?

Contingency Table

https://digfir-published.macmillanusa.com/corty3e/corty3e_ch15_4.html

Questions we can answer from this table
  • What is the total number of subjects in this study?
  • How many subjects were a behavior problem?
  • How many subjects recieved frequent unconditional positive regard?

Publication (Research) Tables

Questions we can answer from this table
  • What was the highest value of LH across the study? What time period?
  • Are the baseline and recovery values for each hormone in the same range?