Descriptive statistics are the cornerstone of data analysis. This method provides the researcher with the tools necessary to understand the statistics on hand. It offers insight into the ...

Let me be upfront: this post will contain statistics. Not the fun, pithy kind like “60 percent of statistics are made up on the spot,” but actual cold, hard statistical practices. Joking aside, I’m ...

Apache's OpenOffice doesn't include a feature to automatically generate a full table of descriptive statistics for your company spreadsheets. The office productivity suite is an open-source project ...

We propose a way to formalize the relationship between descriptive analysis and structural estimation. A researcher reports an estimate ĉ of a structural quantity of interest c that is exactly or ...

Three similar machines are used to attach a part to an assembly. One hundred assemblies are sampled from the output of each machine, and a part position is measured in millimeters. The following ...

The goals of the paper are: (1) to suggest that library and information science already depend heavily on statistical techniques; (2) to present examples of the need for greater knowledge of ...