.. _stats:

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Statistical Data Analysis
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|M| contains many functions for statistical data analysis. The
coverage here focuses on statistical calculations with |M| and is not a full
coverage of the topic.

We will also touch on an important statistics topic later when we cover
:ref:`leastSquare`.


.. Some of the most common functions include:

.. .. csv-table:: Statistic Functions
   :header: "Function",	"Description"
   :widths: 10 40

..    "min", "Value of the minimum element"
    "max", "Value of the maximum element"
    "mean", "The average of the elements"
    "median", "The median value of the elements"
    "mode", "Most frequent values"
    "std",  "The standard deviation of the elements"
    "sum", "Sum of elements"
    "prod", "Product of elements"



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    **Contents:**

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   introStats
   vectorStats 
   movWindow
   distributions
   random
   matrixStats
   statPlots
   CLT
   confidence
   significance