Statistical Essentials for Data Analysts: A Beginner's Guide

Understanding Basic Statistical Terminologies with Python

In this post, we'll explore some fundamental statistical concepts using Python and explain them in detail. We'll be working with a dataset of student scores in an exam, and we'll use Python's statistics module and matplotlib library for visualization.

Let's start by importing the necessary libraries and defining our dataset:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import statistics

# data of student scores in an exam
student_scores = [85, 78, 92, 88, 76, 80, 85, 90, …

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