Basic Concepts of Table in Statistics

1. Sanat Kumar Purkait
Assistant Professor & Head
Department Of Geography
Raidighi College
(University Of Calcutta)

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The different parts of a table are:
•TITLE- This is the brief description of the contents and is shown at
the top of the table.
•STUB- The extreme left part of the table, where descriptions of
rows are shown, is called stub.
•BODY-It is that part of the table which classes the figures.

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TITLE
STUB
SOURCE............................ FOOT NOTE.............................
BOX
HEAD

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•CAPTION AND BOX HEAD-
The upper part of the table which shows the description of
columns and sub columns is called caption. The whole of the upper
part including caption units of measurements and column numbers if
any, is called box-head.
•FOOT NOTE-
This is the part just below the body, where the source of data
and any explanations are shown.

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