from PHP Magazine - International Edition Issue: 05.2003
Grokking Stats
Descriptive Stats – a quick tour, their foundations, use and limitations
Jesús M. Castagnetto
Along the way we will perform some statistical analysis of our data, showing how some PEAR packages (such as PEAR::Math_Statsand PEAR::Math_Histogram) can do the heavy lifting for us, so we can concentrate on the interpretation.We will also see an example of the misapplication of statistics as a cautionary tale for the unwary.
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