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Descriptive Statistics in MATLAB

This document describes how to prepare data and calculate common descriptive statistics in MATLAB. It discusses importing data from an Excel file or manually entering it. It then lists various descriptive statistics that can be calculated, including measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode), variation/dispersion (standard deviation, variance, range), percentiles, and data shapes (skewness, kurtosis). Graphs like histograms, boxplots, and pie charts can also be created to visualize the data distribution.

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Descriptive Statistics in MATLAB

This document describes how to prepare data and calculate common descriptive statistics in MATLAB. It discusses importing data from an Excel file or manually entering it. It then lists various descriptive statistics that can be calculated, including measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode), variation/dispersion (standard deviation, variance, range), percentiles, and data shapes (skewness, kurtosis). Graphs like histograms, boxplots, and pie charts can also be created to visualize the data distribution.

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DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS IN MATLAB

A. Preparing Data
Consider the hypothetical data below:

1. Manual
Input: >>A=[2.27 0.75 1 0.43 3.6; 27 21 36 34 69; 4920 4113 6072 4024 3562]
Output:
A=
2.27 0.75 1 0.43 3.6
27 21 36 34 69
4920 4113 6072 4024 3562

Note: Values appear in horizontal (row) form with “space” as delimiter and “;” as row
identifier. Use “ ‘ “ to create 3 columns (that is, transpose).

Input: >>A=[2.27 0.75 1 0.43 3.6; 27 21 36 34 69; 4920 4113 6072 4024 3562]’
Output:
A=
2.27 27 4920
0.75 21 4113
1 36 6072
0.43 34 4024
3.6 69 3562
2. Importing data file:
Input: >>A=readtable(file_name.xlsx) %make sure that the file is in the current directory
Output:
A=
Acres Age Taxes
2.27 27 4920
0.75 21 4113
1 36 6072
0.43 34 4024
3.6 69 3562

3. Common Descriptive statistics:


Tables:
>>tabulate(A) %creates a frequency table of data A. The default format has 3 column: 1st
column — the unique values of x; 2nd column — the number of instances
of each value; 3rd column — the percentage of each value
For grouped data, you need to install the Statistics Toolbox to be able to set-up the FDT:
Graphs:
>>bar(A) %creates the bar chart of the data defined as A
(applies if A is a single column)
>>bar(A(1:25,1)) %creates the bar chart for the first 25 data points of column 1
>>bar(A(:,1)) % creates the bar chart of the 1st column of data A
>>histogram(A)%creates the histogram with a default of 10 bins/intervals
>>histogram(A,nbins)%creates the histogram with specified number of bins/intervals
>>pie(A)%creates a pie chart for data A
>>boxplot(A) %draws the boxplot of data A

Central Values
>>mean(A) %calculates the mean
>>median(A) %calculates the median
>>mode(A) %finds the mode
>>geomean(A) %calculates the geometric mean
>>harmmean(A) % calculates the harmonic mean
>>trimmean(A,10) % calculates the 10% trimmed mean

Percentiles
>>prctile(A,84) %calculates the 84th percentile of data A. This can also be used to find
other quantiles, like “>>prctile(A,75)” will calculate the third quartile
while “>>prctile(A,40)” will calculate the 4th decile.

Variations/Dispersion
>>std(A) % calculates the standard deviation
>>var(A) % calculates the variance
>>range(A) % calculates the range
>>mad(A) % calculates the mean absolute deviation
>>iqr(A) % calculates the Interquartile Range

Shapes
>>skewness(A)
>>kurtosis(A)

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