Techniques
There are a number of tools that are useful for EDA, but EDA is characterized more by the attitude taken than by particular techniques.
Typical graphical techniques used in EDA are:
- Box plot
- Histogram
- Multi-vari chart
- Run chart
- Pareto chart
- Scatter plot
- Stem-and-leaf plot
- Odds ratio
- Multidimensional scaling
- Targeted projection pursuit
- Principal component analysis
Typical quantitative techniques are:
- Median polish
- the Trimean
- Ordination
Read more about this topic: Exploratory Data Analysis
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