Data Distribution

Potter C. Chang
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Potter C. Chang: University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Chapter Chapter 1 in Data Analysis of Medical Studies, 2025, pp 3-45 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The distribution of data is a vital component of statistical methods for data analysis. Revelations of data are productively explored by examining the distributions of data and described by articulating manifestations of distributions. This chapter uses simple examples to introduce the concept of data distribution.

Keywords: Data distribution; Histogram; Frequency table; Variation; Skewness; Quantitative and qualitative data; Binary data; Dichotomous data; Polytomous data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49984-5_1

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