March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
19h 35m
English
Sometimes, numbers tell us more than pictures. After all, the name descriptive statistics tells you it is about describing something. Descriptive statistics describe a distribution of a variable. Inferential statistics tell you about the associations between variables. There are a plethora of possibilities for introductory statistics in R. However, before calculating the statistical values, let's quickly define some of the most popular measures of descriptive statistics.
The mean is the most common measure for determining the center of a distribution. It is also probably the most abused statistical measure. The mean does not mean anything without the standard deviation or some other measure, and it should never be ...