Quantitative Methods: Descriptive statistics Flashcards

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Coins can be sorted and stacked based on their numbers, what are stacks called?

A

Bins

In data science, such group of coin stacks is called histogram.

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What does the height of each bin represent?

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Frequency

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What does a histogram do?

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Vizualises how data are distributed

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4
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What does Skewness measure?

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The degree of asymmetry

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5
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What does Kurtosis mean?

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The sharpness

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