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The statistical properties of a single parameter are investigated by means of univariate analysis. Such a parameter could, for example, be the organic carbon content of deep-sea sediments, the sizes of grains in a sandstone layer, or the ages of sanidine crystals in a volcanic ash. Both the number and the size of samples that we collect from a larger population are often limited by financial and logistical constraints. The methods of univariate statistics assist us to draw from the sample conclusions that apply to the population as a whole.
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Trauth, M.H. (2015). Univariate Statistics. In: MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46244-7_3
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