PRDV420: Basic Summary Statistics

After plotting the data, mean and variance are some of the basic summaries that we want to know. R has built-in functions to calculate mean, sd, var, and median. This video demonstrates the calculations and, using the plot, shows how the results relate to the sample data.

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