Fear of Big Data: Multiple Inflations

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bit.ly/dsia04e Part E of Lec 4 of Descriptive Statistics: An Islamic Approach, explains how inflation rate varies by household, depending on consumption pattern. Generally speaking, one cannot reduce all of these inflation numbers to ONE number – the inflation rate -without serious loss of information. A histogram captures most of the information in the data ...

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