May 2019
Beginner
528 pages
29h 51m
English
In data science, you’ll often use statistics to describe and summarize your data. Here, we begin by introducing several such descriptive statistics, including:
minimum—the smallest value in a collection of values.
maximum—the largest value in a collection of values.
range—the range of values from the minimum to the maximum.
count—the number of values in a collection.
sum—the total of the values in a collection.
We’ll look at determining the count and sum in the next chapter. Measures of dispersion (also called measures of variability), such as range, help determine how spread out values are. Other measures of dispersion that we’ll present in later chapters include variance and standard ...
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