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A data set may contain many variables and observations. However, we are not always interested in each of the measured values but rather in a summary which interprets the data.
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Heumann, C., Schomaker, M., Shalabh (2016). Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion. In: Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46162-5_3
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