Applied statistics 101 using R: Descriptive statistics and visualization
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Descriptive statistics and visualization are methods to summarize data. These methods include measures of central tendency, dispersion, histograms, frequency tables, and boxplots. R is a free and open-source statistical programming language. The R environment consists of the base package, as well as several add-on packages that replicate or extend its functionality. This tutorial introduces beginners to descriptive statistics and visualization using base R, psych, pastecs, DescTools, and others.
