Web Resources
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It explains how a one-way table is the tabular equivalent of a bar chart. Like a bar chart, a one-way table displays categorical data in the form of frequency counts and/or relative frequencies.
SPSS Tutorials: Descriptive Stats for One Numeric Variable (Frequencies)
It explains how when applied to scale variables, the frequencies procedure in SPSS can compute quartiles, percentiles, and other summary statistics.