Statistics Toolbox

Descriptive Statistics

Introduction

Data samples can have thousands (even millions) of values. Descriptive statistics are a way to summarize this data into a few numbers that contain most of the relevant information. The following sections explore the features provided by the Statistics Toolbox for working with descriptive statistics:

• Measures of Central Tendency (Location)
• Measures of Dispersion
• Functions for Data with Missing Values (NaNs)
• Function for Grouped Data
• Percentiles and Graphical Descriptions
• The Bootstrap

Weibull Distribution

Measures of Central Tendency (Location)