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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with Python
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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with Python

by Suresh Kumar Mukhiya, Usman Ahmed
March 2020
Beginner to intermediate
352 pages
8h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Measures of dispersion

The second type of descriptive statistics is the measure of dispersion, also known as a measure of variability. It is used to describe the variability in a dataset, which can be a sample or population. It is usually used in conjunction with a measure of central tendency, to provide an overall description of a set of data. A measure of dispersion/variability/spread gives us an idea of how well the central tendency represents the data. If we are analyzing the dataset closely, sometimes, the mean/average might not be the best representation of the data because it will vary when there are large variations between the data. In such a case, a measure of dispersion will represent the variability in a dataset much more accurately. ...

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