Statistics Essentials

The importance of skewness and kurtosis in statistical analysis — examples in R Studio

When performing a statistical analysis, understanding the shape of data is important for good interpretation and further decision making. If you fail to identify potential outliers in a dataset, all models that might come out of it might be wrong and non usable, leading to wrong results. In this article, I’m tackling the topic of skewness and kurtosis and why is it important in statistical analysis.

Statistics Essentials

Understanding Outliers in Data Analysis: Insights from R

Normal distribution and normality are a rare event in data analytics. It happened almost never that you have a perfect mound, Gaussian distribution of a variable in a dataset. When that occurs, we are talking about outliers. Outliers are data points in a dataset that deviate from the rest of the data. In this article, we will discuss why does it happen and how to deal with it, in order to apply methods and techniques which have a normal distribution as a prerequisite.