Statistical Techniques for Data Processing

Given a set of data values, we need to process them to get information. There are various techniques which help us to have preliminary understanding about the data. Summarisation methods are applied on tabular data for its easy comprehension.

Commonly used statistical techniques for data summarisation, covered in this chapter, are:

• Measures of Central Tendency (section 7.5.1) — Mean, Median, and Mode — each gives a single value representing the average, the middle value, and the most frequently occurring value in the data, respectively. …