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	Analisi di Frequenza	Analisi di tabulazione incrociata
Campo	Statistica	Statistica
Famiglia	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
Anno di origine	19th century	1900
Ideatore	Classical statistics (no single inventor)	Karl Pearson
Tipo	Descriptive summary	Descriptive and inferential categorical analysis
Fonte seminale	Field, A. (2013). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (4th ed.). SAGE. ISBN: 978-1446249185	Pearson, K. (1900). On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to have arisen from random sampling. Philosophical Magazine, 50(302), 157–175.
Alias	frequency distribution, frequency table, tally analysis, count analysis	crosstab, contingency table analysis, two-way frequency table, bivariate frequency analysis
Correlati	3	5
Sintesi	Frequency analysis is a fundamental descriptive technique that tallies how often each distinct value or category appears in a dataset. It produces absolute counts, relative percentages, and cumulative frequencies, giving an immediate picture of how observations are distributed across categories. It is the natural first step when exploring categorical or discrete variables before applying inferential tests.	Cross-tabulation analysis (contingency table analysis) is a foundational descriptive and inferential technique for examining the relationship between two or more categorical variables. It arranges observed frequencies into a table of rows and columns, enabling visual inspection of patterns and formal chi-square testing of independence between the variables.