Chapter 5: Review of Descriptive Statistics

Overview 87

The World Development Indicators 87

Questions for Analysis 88

Applying an Analytic Framework 89

Preparation for Analysis 92

Univariate Descriptions 92

Explore Relationships with Graph Builder 95

Further Analysis with the Multivariate Platform 98

Further Analysis with Fit Y by X 100

Summing Up: Interpretation and Conclusions 101

Visualizing Multiple Relationships 101

Overview

The prior four chapters introduced several foundational concepts of data analysis and have also led you through a series of illustrative analyses. In this chapter, we pause to pull together what we have learned about descriptive analysis. This is the first in a series of short review chapters, each of which shares the ...

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