Africa

Data Analysis

The study of the data analysis is categorizedubder four main branches namely:

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

Descriptive Analytics

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))