Update numbers.qmd (#1409)
* Update numbers.qmd Some typos. Espeically, the unit of dep_delay is minute rather than hour. * Update numbers.qmd --------- Co-authored-by: Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel <cetinkaya.mine@gmail.com>
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@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ An alternative is to use the `median()`, which finds a value that lies in the "m
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Depending on the shape of the distribution of the variable you're interested in, mean or median might be a better measure of center.
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For example, for symmetric distributions we generally report the mean while for skewed distributions we usually report the median.
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@fig-mean-vs-median compares the mean vs. the median when looking at the hourly vs. median departure delay for each destination.
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@fig-mean-vs-median compares the mean vs. the median departure delay (in minutes) for each destination.
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The median delay is always smaller than the mean delay because flights sometimes leave multiple hours late, but never leave multiple hours early.
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