Africa

Data Analysis

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

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

Descriptive Statistics

There are five 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 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(density(AirPassengers))