The five-number summary Statistics is one of the most powerful and simple tools widely used in descriptive statistics. It provides a quick overview of a numerical dataset using five values: (i) the minimum, (ii) first quartile, (iii) median, (iv) third quartile, and (v) maximum. BS Data Analytics and BS Statistics students can use it to understand the center, spread, skewness, and possible outliers in real-world data. What is a Five-Number Summary Statistic? Interquartile Range Why are Five-Number Summary Statistics Important? Worked Example: Five-Number Summary Statistics Graphical Representation: Box and Whiskers Plot…

The post is about the computation of the Five Number Summary in R. Using the mtcars dataset already available in R, we will master summary functions, five-number summary statistics, and data exploration in R. What is descriptive Statistics? mtcars Data Set Attached the dataset to call variables by Name Check the structure of mtcars Inspecting first and last rows…