Understanding univariate analysis

Remember the variables we worked with in Chapter 5, Descriptive Statistics, for measures of descriptive statistics? There we had a set of integers ranging from 2 to 12. We calculated the mean, median, and mode of that set and analyzed the distribution patterns of integers. Then, we calculated the mean, mode, median, and standard deviation of the values available in the height column of each type of automobile dataset. Such an analysis on a single type of dataset is called univariate analysis.

Univariate analysis is the simplest form of analyzing data. It means that our data has only one type of variable and that we perform analysis over it. The main purpose of univariate analysis is to take data, summarize ...

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