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About Descriptive Statistics Functions
Use the descriptive statistics functions to analyze data sets.
Location
The best choice of location estimator depends on the general dispersion or distribution of your data.
• mean, gmean, hmean—Arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means
• median, mode, percentile—Location estimators
Dispersion
The following functions give a measures of the dispersion or shape of a data set.
• var, Var, stdev, Stdev—Variance and standard deviation of populations or samples
• kurt, skew—Kurtosis and Skewness
• Ftest—F test
Association
• cvar, corr—Covariance and Pearson's correlation coefficient
• Spear, kendtau, kendtau2, contingtbl—Correlation and contingency tables