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  2. Data analysis - Wikipedia

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    In today's business world, data analysis plays a role in making decisions more scientific and helping businesses operate more effectively. [3] Data mining is a particular data analysis technique that focuses on statistical modeling and knowledge discovery for predictive rather than purely descriptive purposes, while business intelligence covers ...

  3. Rule of 72 - Wikipedia

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    The formula above can be used for more than calculating the doubling time. If one wants to know the tripling time, for example, replace the constant 2 in the numerator with 3. As another example, if one wants to know the number of periods it takes for the initial value to rise by 50%, replace the constant 2 with 1.5.

  4. 68–95–99.7 rule - Wikipedia

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    This holds ever more strongly for moves of 4 or more standard deviations. One can compute more precisely, approximating the number of extreme moves of a given magnitude or greater by a Poisson distribution , but simply, if one has multiple 4 standard deviation moves in a sample of size 1,000, one has strong reason to consider these outliers or ...

  5. Statistical data type - Wikipedia

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    The concept of data type is similar to the concept of level of measurement, but more specific. For example, count data requires a different distribution (e.g. a Poisson distribution or binomial distribution) than non-negative real-valued data require, but both fall under the same level of measurement (a ratio scale).

  6. Entropy (information theory) - Wikipedia

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    With this representation, 70% of the time only one bit needs to be sent, 26% of the time two bits, and only 4% of the time 3 bits. On average, fewer than 2 bits are required since the entropy is lower (owing to the high prevalence of 'A' followed by 'B' – together 96% of characters).

  7. Data - Wikipedia

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    Data accessibility. Another problem is that much scientific data is never published or deposited in data repositories such as databases. In a recent survey, data was requested from 516 studies that were published between 2 and 22 years earlier, but less than one out of five of these studies were able or willing to provide the requested data.

  8. Sampling distribution - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, a sampling distribution or finite-sample distribution is the probability distribution of a given random-sample-based statistic.For an arbitrarily large number of samples where each sample, involving multiple observations (data points), is separately used to compute one value of a statistic (for example, the sample mean or sample variance) per sample, the sampling distribution is ...

  9. Little's law - Wikipedia

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    The store must either be prepared to host an average of 10 occupants or must reduce the time each customer spends in the store to 0.25 hour. The store might achieve the latter by ringing up the bill faster or by adding more counters. We can apply Little's Law to systems within the store. For example, consider the counter and its queue.