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Descriptive Statistics

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Descriptive statistics summarize or quantitatively describe variables from a dataset. In a SQL Server table, a dataset is a set of the rows, or a rowset, that comes from a SQL Server table, view, or tabular expression. A variable is stored in a column of the rowset. In statistics, a variable is frequently called a feature.

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Sarka, D. (2021). Descriptive Statistics. In: Advanced Analytics with Transact-SQL. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7173-5_1

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