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When describing a data set, two obvious questions arise: Where is it located? How big is it? This article focuses on the first question.  The second is covered here. A couple of preliminaries: The word “mean” can be ambiguous, as there are several types of means, four of which are included in the CFA curriculum: […]

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A frequency distribution is nothing more nor less than a grouping of data into a number of intervals or “bins”.  It is most commonly presented as either a histogram or as a frequency polygon.  For example, if you were to capture and measure the heights (in meters) of 500 giraffes, you might produce a table […]

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