Data Analysis

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

Descriptive Statistics

There are five different measurements used in the context of descriptive statisticsnamely;

  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.

Measure of central Tendency

  • There are six basic measurement in the computation of cendency including: mean, mode, medean, maximum, minimum and mid-range
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))