The data consists of a sample of n observations of a discrete variable, denoted by
, fori=1,...,n. Then sort the data ascending, the ordered data is denoted by
, fori=1,...,n. The corresponding count of the value
is denoted by
, , which is the frequency of the ith value. The relative frequency and cumulative frequency of
are calculated as follows:
and
, for k=1,...,n.