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Why Statistics

• Summarize raw data
• Compute metrics like mean and standard deviation
• Test significance

Measures of typical value

These measures are used to describe the most typical value in a set of values. Measures of typical value include

• Mean: average value
• Median: center value
• Mode: most common value

Measures of variation

• Measure how far data points are from the average

• standard deviation
  

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