Chapter 7 Exploratory Data Analysis
Learning Objectives
- Describe the purpose of exploratory data analysis.
- Use appropriate tools to calculate suitable summary statistics and undertake exploratory data visualizations.
- Define and calculate Pearson’s, Spearman’s and Kendall’s measures of correlation for bivariate data, explain their interpretation and perform statistical inference as appropriate.
- Use Principal Components Analysis to reduce the dimensionality of a complex data set.