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The objectives of preliminary data analysis are to edit the data to prepare it for further analysis, describe the key features of the data, ... Skiptomaincontent Advertisement SearchSpringerLink Search AbstractTheobjectivesofpreliminarydataanalysisaretoeditthedatatoprepareitforfurtheranalysis,describethekeyfeaturesofthedata,andsummarizetheresults.Thischapterdealswithquantitativeandqualitativeapproachestoachievingtheseobjectives.Topicscoveredincludescalesofmeasurement,typesofdata,graphicalmethodsofanalysisᾢincludinghistograms,probabilityplots,andothergraphicalrepresentationsofdata,andbasicdescriptivestatisticsᾢmean,median,fractiles,standarddeviation,andsoforth.Thechapterconcludeswithadiscussionoftheuseofprobabilityplotsinpreliminarymodelselection.KeywordsWeibullDistributionClaimDataProbabilityPlotWeibullModelEmpiricalDistributionFunctionThesekeywordswereaddedbymachineandnotbytheauthors.Thisprocessisexperimentalandthekeywordsmaybeupdatedasthelearningalgorithmimproves. 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Taxcalculationwillbefinalisedduringcheckout BuyHardcoverBook Learnaboutinstitutionalsubscriptions Fig.8.1Fig.8.2Fig.8.3Fig.8.4Fig.8.5Fig.8.6Fig.8.7Fig.8.8Fig.8.9Fig.8.10Fig.8.11Fig.8.12Fig.8.13 Notes1.Someothersoftwarepackages,includingSplus(http://www.insightful.com)andR-language(http://cran.r-project.org/)arealsousedinlaterChapters.2.Inaveryrealsense,probabilityandstatisticsareinversesofoneanother.Probabilitydealswithmodelsofrandomnessthatcanbeusedtomakestatementsaboutthekindsofdatathatmayoccur.Statisticsdealswiththeuseofdatatomakestatementsaboutthemodel.3.Relatedtermsarepercentileandquantile.4.TheexceptionoccursiftheCDFisconstantoversomeintervalandincreasingoneithersideoftheinterval.5.Minitabremovessmallestandlargest5%(usingthenearestintegerto.05n).Thisusuallyremovesthevaluescausingthedistortionandprovidesamoremeaningfulmeasure.Other(lessdrastic)methodsofdealingwithoutlierswillbediscussedinChap.9.6.ThesubscriptsisforCharlesSpearman,whodevisedthemeasurein1904.7.ThestepsmayvarywithrespecttotheversionoftheMinitabsoftware.8.Asnotedbyawell-knownstatistician,OscarKempthorne,“Nomodeliscorrect.Butsomeareuseful!”.9.Infact,the“goodness-of-fit”statisticisgivenasAD*=0.436,whichindicatesarelativelygoodfit.ThiswillbediscussedfurtherinChap.10. 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