Africa

Data analysis

The study of data analysis under four main branches namely:

• Descriptive analysis
• Diagnostic analaysis
• Predictive analysis
• Prescriptive analysis

Descriptive Statistics

There are different measurements used in the context of descriptive statistics namely:-

1. Measure of central tendency
2. Measure of dispersion or Variation
3. Measure of Position or Location
4. Measure of Shape
5. Measure of Frequency

Measurement of central Tendency

• There are six basic measurements in the computation of central tendency including: mean, mode, mean, minimum, mid-range, and maximum

data("AirPassengers")
summary(AirPassengers)

##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##   104.0   180.0   265.5   280.3   360.5   622.0

hist(AirPassengers)

boxplot(AirPassengers)

plot(density(AirPassengers))