Stijn Debrouwere personal blog
Unlearning descriptive statistics
If you've ever used an arithmetic mean, a Pearson correlation or a standard deviation to describe a dataset, I'm writing this for you. Better numbers exist to summarize location, association and spread: numbers that are easier to interpret and that don't act up with wonky data and outliers.
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Databases & DataLife, Learning & Writing2017
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2017 | Unlearning descriptive statistics by stdbrouw | 343 | 92 |
