Statistics

Statistics is described as:

Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.

In practice this often means doing some form of analysis to data. This can be things like taking a mean of a collection of numerical values and checking if particular relationship exists within the data. It also includes using visualisation to understand data, this chapter will not consider visualisation which is instead considered here: Matplotlib.

Important

In this chapter we will cover:

• Calculating measures of central tendency and spread

• Calculating bivariate coefficients

• Fitting a line of best fit

• Using the Normal distribution