4.4 Calculating Statistics on Data
In the next few sections, we analyze data sets using simple statistics and assume that our data is stored in list structures. For example, let’s assume that we want to analyze statistics on earthquakes worldwide. During one seven-day period, we find that there were 37 earthquakes on Monday, 32 on Tuesday, 46 on Wednesday, 28 on Thursday, 37 on Friday, 41 on Saturday, and 31 on Sunday. This data can be stored in the simple list [37, 32, 46, 28, 37, 41, 31].
Python’s statistics module can help with our analysis of the data. TABLE 4.5 highlights some useful functions from this module . To use these methods, we need to import the statistics module. In addition, we can get help from some built-in functions, as ...
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