Timeline for Why is the center of data important?
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 23:08 | vote | accept | StatisticallyDead | ||
| Mar 1, 2018 at 23:07 | comment | added | StatisticallyDead | @Tim Thank you, I guess I have to keep in mind the big picture of statistics each step of the way as I continue to learn it. Often times we cannot have the entire population in a data set so we have to rely on a mean of a sample to help us make an inference to learn what the mean of the population may be. | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 23:00 | comment | added | Tim | @StatisticallyDead say that you have dataset of 10000 cases by 1000 variables, would you look at each of the 10000x1000 values individually to get a feeling about the data? Summary statistics summarize the data to make understanding it easier. | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 22:45 | comment | added | StatisticallyDead | @Tim From your experience, why are these simple summaries of data important? | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 22:09 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 21:59 | comment | added | Stefan | Tim there might be a typo in your answer. You defined "mode" twice. The first "mode" was probably meant to be median. | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 21:48 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |