Africa

Data Analysis

the study of the data analaysis is categorized under four main branches namely:

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

Descriptive Analytics

There are five different measurement 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 shapes
5. Measure of Frequency

Measure of Central Tendency

• There are six basic measurement in the computation of central tendency including: mean, mode, median, 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(AirPassengers)