Africa

Data Analysis

The study of analysis is categorized under four main branches namely;

• Descriptive Analytics
• Diagnostic Analytics
• Predictive Analytics
• Prescriptive Analytics

Descriptive Analytics

There are five different measurements use din 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 shapes
5. measure of frequency

Measure of central tendency

• There are seven basic measurement in the computation of central tendency including: mean, mode, medium, 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))