August 2020
Beginner to intermediate
740 pages
13h 41m
English
book
The Statistics and Calculus with Python Workshop
by Peter Farrell, Alvaro Fuentes, Ajinkya Sudhir Kolhe, Quan Nguyen, Alexander Joseph Sarver, Marios Tsatsos, Amit Chaurasia, Rohan Chikorde, Sanjin Dedic, Tim Hoolihan, Ravi Ranjan Prasad Karn, Alberto Manzini
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7. Doing Basic Statistics with Python
Overview
In this chapter, we'll learn how to use the main descriptive statistics metrics and also produce and understand the main visualizations used in Exploratory Data Analysis.
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to load and prepare a dataset for basic statistical analysis, calculate and use the main descriptive statistics metrics, use descriptive statistics to understand numerical and categorical variables, and use visualizations to study relationships between variables.
Introduction
Python and its analytical libraries, such as pandas and Matplotlib, make it very easy to perform both simple and complex statistical calculations on many types of datasets. This chapter introduces the first ...
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