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Numerical Descriptive Statistics

Histograms provide a good graphical means for visualizing sample (population) distributions and for comparing more than one sample (population). Numerical summary statistics provide additional information for describing and comparing samples (populations). We will be concerned primarily with two types of numerical summary statistics,

  1. Measures of Location
  2. Measures of Variability


Jan Lethen
Wed Nov 13 16:20:46 CST 1996