Descriptive Statistics

59 min

Block 4 — Understanding the data before modeling
Objective: define, compute and interpret the standard descriptive statistics — central tendency, dispersion, position, shape —, explain why the median withstands extreme values while the mean does not, read a df.describe() output in full, and derive from it the preparation decisions the data demand.
Estimated duration: 45 minutes
Prerequisites: chapters 005 (dataset structure), 006 (features and target) and 013 (exploratory data analysis)
Associated quizzes: 014.1-quiz-central-tendency.md to 014.6-quiz-preparation-decisions.md

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