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You have already seen many of the statistical functions in R, but in this chapter, you get a more complete list. You also will learn how R calculates and, more important, reports the statistical results. We cover the standard descriptive statistics from a business statistics class. If you have not taken statistics or are a little rusty, I recommend David Moore’s business statistics books. Although it is a toss-up whether to cover graphs or numerical summaries first, we will start with numerical summaries. We will cover measures of central tendency and spread, and the shape of a distribution. For this chapter, and for others, we will use common examples, and the same data will be used several different times.
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Pace, L. (2012). Summary Statistics. In: Beginning R. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4555-1_4
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