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Last night in the middle of the night I was reading the news on my phone, as one does. I came across an article on KDNuggets about Python’s built-in statistics module. This article can be found here:- https://www.kdnuggets.com/mastering-pythons-built-in-statistics-module
This piqued my interest, so I decided to read the article. I found the article to be very informative because it gave a list of all of the functions available in this module.
In addition, I found out in the article that Statology is KDNuggets’ sister site. I knew that Zach Bobbet, the originator of the site had sold it after six years of running it on his own, but I did not know that KDNuggets is now the website’s, so that was some additional information that I picked up whilst reading the article.
While the article in KDNuggets was very good at giving a list of all of the functions in the model, it did not really give adequate code examples of the functions, so I decided to write a small program in Python’s IDLE and then review the code.
Two types of measures in descriptive statistics are the measure of tendency and the measure of variability:-
