14. Statistical Description of Data

14.0 Introduction          . . 720
14.1 Moments of a Distribution: Mean, Variance, Skewness, and So Forth 721
14.2 Do Two Distributions Have the Same Means or Variances?  . . 726
14.3 Are Two Distributions Different?       730
14.4 Contingency Table Analysis of Two Distributions    741
14.5 Linear Correlation         . . 745
14.6 Nonparametric or Rank Correlation      . . 748
14.7 Information-Theoretic Properties of Distributions    . 754
14.8 Do Two-Dimensional Distributions Differ?     . 762
14.9 Savitzky-Golay Smoothing Filters       766

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