April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 54m
English
The material in Chapter 6 makes use of several ideas from statistics. We also use some simple descriptive statistics in the edge detection application in Section 4.4. In this appendix we review some basic statistical concepts.
We start with the definition of the mean.
A second statistic that is used to measure the center of the data is the median. The median is a number xmed such that the number of data below xmed is equal to the number of data above xmed.
The mean and the median are two descriptive statistics that tell us something about the “center” of the data. Unfortunately, neither tell us about the spread of the data. We ...
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