StatQuest: Histograms, Clearly Explained

Histograms are one of the most basic statistical tools that we have. They are also one of the most powerful and most frequently used. However, they are not without pitfalls... So this StatQuests covers the essential information that you need to have to make the most of histograms.

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Omg. No one has taught me such a basic concept like histogram the way you have. aahh love this channel. I'm learning machine learning and i decided to go back to basics before going to advanced machine learning algorithms like xgboost

[slmnsolomon]

Helpful Information!!
Thank you!!

A simple approach to choose the width depending upon the size of the data...

Find Range
Range= Highest Value - Lowest Value

Find Number Classes (K)
Apply Sturge's Rule = 1+3.322(LogN)
Where N is the Number of Observations in the data

Finally find the Width of the class
Width=Range/K(Number of Classes)

*Approximate K before finding Width
*Keep Width of the class to the nearest multiple of 5 (Suppose you get width as 6 make it 10)

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Holy Moly, so much simplified, I hate youtube to not show this first when I was searching about "histograms"!!!

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please make a course on probability and statistics...for deep learning which includes concepts like
-confidence interval in all the different scenarios
- hypothesis testing in different scenarios
- ANOVA(one and two way)
- chi-square and Pearson correlation coefficient.
- co-variance & pooled covariance
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 - tukey test
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