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Don’t trust summary statistics alone

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Don’t trust summary statistics alone When teaching statistics and econometrics yours truly always stress the importance of data visualization. The thirteen datasets shown above is a great illustration of why one should always plot data. They all have the same summary statistics — mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient — but some are dinosaurs and others are stars … Conclusion: never trust summary statistics alone! Advertisements

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Don’t trust summary statistics alone

Don’t trust summary statistics alone

When teaching statistics and econometrics yours truly always stress the importance of data visualization. The thirteen datasets shown above is a great illustration of why one should always plot data. They all have the same summary statistics — mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient — but some are dinosaurs and others are stars …

Conclusion: never trust summary statistics alone!

Don’t trust summary statistics alone

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Lars Pålsson Syll
Professor at Malmö University. Primary research interest - the philosophy, history and methodology of economics.

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