Handbook of Descriptive Statistics

This book aims to function as a comprehensive reference guide to the measures used in descriptive statistics. For a general introduction to statistics, see Statistics instead.

It has a section on all the common measures, and they are categorised according to type. Initially we shall concentrate on univariate statistics. Entries should be brief, information-packed and not overly tutorial in nature. Assume a reader which already has a basic knowledge of statistics, and needs detailed information or a refresher.

See /Template/ for how an entry should look.

Table of contents

 * 1) /Introduction/
 * 2) /Types of Statistical Variables/
 * 3) /Measures of Central Tendency/
 * 4) Arithmetic Mean
 * 5) Median
 * 6) Mode
 * 7) Midrange
 * 8) Geometric Mean
 * 9) Harmonic Mean
 * 10) Truncated Mean
 * 11) Interquartile Mean
 * 12) Root Mean Square
 * 13) Trimean
 * 14) Measures of Statistical Variability
 * 15) Variance
 * 16) Population Variance
 * 17) Standard Deviation
 * 18) Range
 * 19) Interquartile range
 * 20) Semiquartile range
 * 21) Absolute Deviation
 * 22) Geometric Standard Deviation
 * 23) Measures of Distribution Shape
 * 24) Skewness
 * 25) Kurtosis
 * 26) Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit
 * 27) Shapiro-Wilks W
 * 28) Kolmogorov-Smirnov test