Sunday, February 10, 2008

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rectangular array of numbers with many rows and few columns. convert x --> z. remember the order of calculation! ordered list of all possible values that occur in the dataset. cumulative frequency. no loss of data. 0.0002 mode. median. mean. mean. mean. not influenced by the extreme values in the data, but ignoring parts of it. who cares? iqr. +/- k when distributed evenly over all categories. cannot compare K's unless there's the same number of categories. box-plotting. draw the whisker to data value that is closest to the max. upper whisker or min. lower whisker, but no more extreme. mark the values. linear transformations. approximation by many variables. kip sumner. 68%.
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