Chapter 2. Exploratory Data Analysis with Automobile Data
Exploratory data analysis is an integral part of data mining. It involves numerical as well as graphical representation of variables in a dataset for easy understanding and quick conclusion about a dataset. It is important to get an understanding about the dataset, type of variables considered for analysis, association between various variables, and so on. Creating cross tabulations to understand the relationship between categorical variables and performing classical statistical tests on the data to verify various different hypotheses about the data can be tested out.
You will now get an understanding about the following things:
- How to use basic statistics to know properties of a single and ...
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