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Statistics

A box with whiskers

Boxplot You will agree that it is a curious name for a graph. When thinking of its name it pops into my head a picture of a shoebox with whiskers, but actually, I think this chart seems more like the…

24/11/2015

Statistics

Meat or fish?

Mean or median? This is the difficult dilemma that presents to me every time I go to have lunch to a good restaurant. I, honestly, like better meat, but as science textbooks say I’m an omnivorous animal, and I don’t…

01/07/2014

Statistics

The most wished statistical for a mother

Dispersion measures Those of you who’re reading and who belong to the pediatricians’ gang already know what I am talking about: the 50th percentile. There’s no mother who doesn’t want her offspring to be above it in weight, height, intelligence…

20/10/2013

Statistics

Virtue is the happy medium between two extremes, but…

Location measures …where is the medium?. This question, which looks like a summer’s night delirium, must not be so easy to answer given that you have several ways to locate the middle or center of a data distribution. The matter…

01/09/2013