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There’s something called a five number summary in statistics: mean, median, standard deviation, 25th percentile and 75th percentile. The bonus is that the 75th
by axpy906 5y ago
There’s something called a five number summary in statistics: mean, median, standard deviation, 25th percentile and 75th percentile.
The bonus is that the 75th - 50th gives you the interquartile range.
Mean is not a robust measure and as such you need to look at variety to truly understand the spread of your data.
- bluesmoon 5y agoIQR is 75th - 25th, aka, the middle-50%
- monkeydust 5y agoOk this, box plots are a good way to visualize and show distribution esp to a not so stat heavy audience.
- axpy906 5y agoYou’re right I mistyped.
- 10000truths 5y agoIf you're going to use multiple quantities to summarize a distribution, wouldn't using percentiles for all of them give you the most information? The mean and standard deviation could then be estimated from that data.