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Descriptive Statistics

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43 questions

Examining Distribution - Univariate

Q1. How can we summarize distribution of categorical variable?

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Q2. State some methods for visualizing the numerical summaries of categorical data?

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Q3. State the difference between pie chart and bar chart?

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Q4. What are graphical methods to visualize the distribution of a quantitative variable?

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Q6. Write the steps of plotting histogram?

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Q7. How can we numerically summarize a distribution represented by histogram?

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Q8. What insights can be gained from examining the shape of a histogram?

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Q9. What is the difference between a unimodal, a bimodal and a multimodal histogram?

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Q10. State the modality of an uniform distribution?

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Q11. Under what conditions does a distribution become skewed to the right?

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Q12. What does right skewed histogram indicates about the dataset?

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Q13. Can you draw a right skewed histogram?

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Q14. State the relationship between mean, median and mode in case of skewed right distributions?

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Q15. State a real-life scenario of a distribution which is skewed right?

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Q16. Under what conditions does a distribution become skewed to the left?

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Q17. What does left skewed histogram indicates about the dataset?

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Q18. Can you draw a left skewed histogram?

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Q19. State the relationship between mean, median and mode in case of skewed left distributions?

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Q20. State the relationship between mean, median and mode in case of symmetric distributions?

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Q21. State a real-life scenario of a distribution which is skewed left?

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Q22. What is a stemplot? What are benefits of using it?

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Q23. State the main numerical measures of center of a quantitative variable distribution?

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Q24. What is mode of a distribution?

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Q25. What is mean of a distribution?

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Q26. What is median of a distribution?

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Q27. How can we calculate median of a distribution?

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Q28. How can we calculate median of a distribution? (Part 2)

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Q29. State the main difference between mean and median?

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Q30. How can we decide which measure should we choose as center of distribution?

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Q31. What are commonly used measures of spread?

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Q32. What do you mean by range of a distribution?

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Q33. What is IQR? How can we calculate it?

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Q34. Can we use IQR to detect outliers?

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Q35. How to deal with outliers in the data?

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Q36. What are the five-number summary statistics of a distribution?

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Q38. State one benefit of using box-plot?

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Q39. What does the standard deviation represent in a distribution?

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Q40. What is the benefit of using IQR over SD for measure of spread?

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Q41. Given the array $[1,5,3,2,4,4]$, find its mean, median, variance, and standard deviation.

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Q42. How do we determine which numerical summaries to use for describing a distribution?

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Q43. State standard deviation rule?

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