Chatty reference · stats1 week 3
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ChatGPT archive slice for week 3. # 23.

23. Stats W3 — Numerical Data
This is a large pattern family.
Central tendency
- Mean
- Median
- Mode
Mean:
xˉ=n1∑i=1nxi
Position
- Quartiles
- Percentiles
Dispersion
- Range
- Variance
- Standard deviation
- IQR
IQR=Q3−Q1
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{min,Q1,median,Q3,max}Patterns:
- calculate summary
- choose appropriate summary
- compare datasets
- detect effect of outliers
- interpret spread
- reconstruct information from summary statistics