By the end of this module, you should be able to:
- Choose appropriate summary statistics and graphical displays given the type of variable and its features,
- Connect different corresponding graphical displays and connect summary statistics to corresponding graphical display,
- Calculate appropriate summary statistics and construct appropriate graphical displays using statistical software,
- Apply and interpret summary statistics and plots to learn about data.
Topics covered in this module
Learning resources:
- Data Used in this Module
- An Introduction to Statistics
- The Five Number Summary (video)
- The Centre of the Data and the Effects of Extreme Values (video)
- The Spread of the Data (video)
- Z-scores
- The Shape of the Data (video)
- Categorical Variables (video)
- Some Features of Data (video)
- Use the tools from this module to Explore the Skeleton Data (interactive app)
- Optional: Guide to carrying out the analysis in this module using R (pdf)