Displaying and describing categorial data - Contingency tables : Children and First-class ticket holders first?

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What does a contingency table show?

How the individuals are distributed along each variable, contingent on the value of the other variable. 

What is a marginal distribution?

The frequency distribution of one of the variables, you can read in the margins of a contingency table. 

What does a cell in a contingency table tell you?

It gives the count for a combination of values of the two variables. 

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