Descriptive Analysis
Descriptive statistics - how to summarize data with numbers or plots
Summaries
Univariate analysis is describing the distribution of a single variable
- central tendency (e.g. the mean, median, and mode)
- dispersion, e.g.
- the range and quantiles of the data set
- measures of spread variance and standard deviation
- the shape of the distribution
- as skewness and kurtosis.
- graphical or tabular format, including histograms and stem-and-leaf display.
Descriptive statistics may be used to describe the relationship between pairs of variables
In this case, descriptive statistics include:
- Cross-Tabulations and Contingency Tables
- Graphical representation via Scatter Plots and other Plots
- Quantitative measures of dependence
- Descriptions of conditional distributions
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