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Summary statistics

Summary statistics

In descriptive statistics, summary statistics are used to summarize a set of observations, in order to communicate the largest amount as simply as possible. This Boxplot represents Michelson and Morley's data on the speed of light. It consists of five experiments, each made of 20 consecutive runs.

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