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Before going into the actual statistical modelling and analysis of a data set, it is often useful to make some simple characterizations of the data in terms of summary statistics and graphics.
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Dalgaard, P. (2008). Descriptive statistics and graphics. In: Introductory Statistics with R. Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79054-1_4
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