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Let me be upfront: this post will contain statistics. Not the fun, pithy kind like “60 percent of statistics are made up on the spot,” but actual cold, hard statistical practices. Joking aside, I’m ...

The goals of the paper are: (1) to suggest that library and information science already depend heavily on statistical techniques; (2) to present examples of the need for greater knowledge of ...

Measures of dispersion are defined as functionals satisfying certain equivariance and order conditions. In the main part of the paper attention is restricted to symmetric distributions. Different ...

Apache's OpenOffice doesn't include a feature to automatically generate a full table of descriptive statistics for your company spreadsheets. The office productivity suite is an open-source project ...

Three similar machines are used to attach a part to an assembly. One hundred assemblies are sampled from the output of each machine, and a part position is measured in millimeters. The following ...

Conclusive research is a structured data collection technique that provides detailed, factual information that's useful in decision-making. Descriptive marketing research is a form of conclusive ...

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