Week 5: Working with a single variable, making transformations, detecting outliers, using robust statistics

Main reference

Wilke (2019) Ch 6 Visualizing Amounts; Ch 7 Visualizing distributions

What you will learn this week

  • Numeric and visual summaries for a single variable
  • Common features to discover
  • Tools for inference for a single variable
  • Imputing missings on a single variable

Lecture slides

Worksheet

Tutorial instructions

Assignments

  • Exercises 2 is due on Monday 01 September.
  • Quiz 4 is due on Thursday 28 August.
  • Quiz 5 is due on Thursday 04 September.