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    The document describes main descriptive statistics techniques for analyzing univariate data, including charts, frequencies, and measures of central tendency and dispersion. It shows that nominal and ordinal variables can be summarized using modes and bar/pie charts while discrete and continuous variables can also be summarized using means, medians, quantiles, and measures of dispersion like range, interquartile range, standard deviation and variance.

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    The document describes main descriptive statistics techniques for analyzing univariate data, including charts, frequencies, and measures of central tendency and dispersion. It shows that nominal and ordinal variables can be summarized using modes and bar/pie charts while discrete and continuous variables can also be summarized using means, medians, quantiles, and measures of dispersion like range, interquartile range, standard deviation and variance.

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    Main Descriptive Statistics Techniques (univariate)

    Variables Charts Frequencies Central (location) Non-central (location) Dispersion


    Pie F (Absolute)
    Qualitative

    Nominal Mode
    Bar f (Relative)
    Quantiles
    Bar All frequencies Mode
    Ordinal (Quartiles, deciles
    Boxplot (f, cum f, F, cum F) Median
    and percentiles)
    Range
    Mode Quantiles
    Bar All frequencies Interquartile Range
    Discrete Median (Quartiles, deciles
    Quantitative

    Boxplot (f, cum f, F, cum F) Standard Deviation


    Mean and percentiles)
    Variance
    Range
    Mode Quantiles
    Histogram All frequencies Interquartile Range
    Continuous Median (Quartiles, deciles
    Boxplot (f, cum f, F, cum F) Standard Deviation
    Mean and percentiles)
    Variance

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