Warming Up: Descriptive Statistics and Essential Probability Models

Hang Lee
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Hang Lee: Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Biostatistics

Chapter Chapter 1 in Foundations of Applied Statistical Methods, 2014, pp 1-29 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter portrays how to make sense of gathered data before performing the formal statistical inference. The covered topics are types of data, how to visualize data, how to summarize data into few descriptive statistics (i.e., condensed numerical indices), and introduction to some useful probability models.

Keywords: Ratio Scale; Average Success Rate; Independent Bernoulli Trial; Interval Scale Data; Nominal Categorical Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02402-8_1

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