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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Univariate Statistics
Author : Martin H. Trauth
Published in: MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The statistical properties of a single parameter are investigated by means of univariate analysis. Such a parameter could, for example, be the organic carbon content of deep-sea sediments, the sizes of grains in a sandstone layer, or the ages of sanidine crystals in a volcanic ash. Both the number and the size of
samples
that we collect from a larger
population
are often limited by financial and logistical constraints. The methods of univariate statistics assist us to draw from the sample conclusions that apply to the population as a whole.