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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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Lars Pålsson Syll considers the following as important: Statistics & Econometrics
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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
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!
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