Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion

Christian Heumann (), Michael Schomaker and Shalabh
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Christian Heumann: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Statistics
Michael Schomaker: University of Cape Town, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
Shalabh: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Chapter Chapter 3 in Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis, 2016, pp 37-66 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A data set may contain many variables and observations. However, we are not always interested in each of the measured values but rather in a summary which interprets the data.

Keywords: Mean Square Error; Central Tendency; Gini Coefficient; Lorenz Curve; Absolute Median Deviation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46162-5_3

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