Chapter 13
Ten Things You Ought to Know about Statistics
In This Chapter
Descriptive statistics are straightforward
Averages aren’t so simple sometimes
Standard deviations describe dispersion
Probability distribution functions aren’t always confusing
Parameters aren’t so complicated
Skewness and kurtosis describe a probability distribution’s shape
An observation is an observation
A sample is a subset of values
Inferential statistics are cool but complicated
Confidence intervals are super-useful ...
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