July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
462 pages
9h 14m
English
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Appendix A. Glossary
This appendix is a brief glossary of technical concepts used throughout Python Data Analysis and this book.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was the dominant encoding standard on the Internet until the end of 2007, with UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode) taking over. ASCII is limited to the English alphabet and has no support for other alphabets.
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a statistical data analysis method invented by statistician Ronald Fisher. This method partitions the data of a continuous variable using the values of one or more corresponding categorical variable to analyze variance. ANOVA is a form of linear modeling.
Anaconda is a free Python distribution for data analysis and scientific computing. ...