Preliminary Data Analysis

Wallace R. Blischke (), M. Rezaul Karim () and D. N. Prabhakar Murthy ()
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M. Rezaul Karim: Rajshahi University
D. N. Prabhakar Murthy: The University of Queensland

Chapter Chapter 8 in Warranty Data Collection and Analysis, 2011, pp 159-189 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The objectives of preliminary data analysis are to edit the data to prepare it for further analysis, describe the key features of the data, and summarize the results. This chapter deals with quantitative and qualitative approaches to achieving these objectives. Topics covered include scales of measurement, types of data, graphical methods of analysisᾢincluding histograms, probability plots, and other graphical representations of data, and basic descriptive statisticsᾢmean, median, fractiles, standard deviation, and so forth. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the use of probability plots in preliminary model selection.

Keywords: Weibull Distribution; Claim Data; Probability Plot; Weibull Model; Empirical Distribution Function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-647-4_8

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