Systematic Organization and Display of Data
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This chapter covers methods for organizing and displaying data.
Systematic Organization and Display of Data
This chapter covers methods for organizing and
displaying data. Such methods provide summary information about a data set and
may be used to conduct exploratory data analyses. We will discuss types of data
used in biostatistics, methods for de-scribing how data are distributed (e.g.,
frequency tables and histograms), and methods for displaying data graphically.
The methods for providing summary information are essential to the development
of hypotheses and to establishing the groundwork for more complex statistical
analyses. Chapter 4 will cover specific summary statistics: e.g., the mean,
mode, and standard deviation.
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