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Even You Can Learn Statistics and Analytics: An Easy to Understand Guide
by David F. Stephan, David M. Levine
June 2022
Beginner
400 pages
8h 35m
English
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Chapter 12
Introduction to Analytics
12.3 Typical Descriptive Analytics Visualizations
Analytics are methods that discover patterns in data with the aim of generating new or improved information from which better decisions can be made. Analytics may seem like a brand-new field, but many of the techniques are not new—even as the union of these techniques in a form that makes them easily accessible is.
Analytics has several antecedents, the most important one being statistics. In fact, many consider multiple regression, which Chapter 11 discusses, to be a foundational method in analytics. Therefore, learning statistics is a good first step towards learning analytics. ...
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