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Chapter 5 Preliminary data analysis

One of the basic thing that is worth doing before starting any modelling is the preliminary data analysis. This can be done either using numerical or graphical analysis. The former is useful when you want to have a summary information about the data without trying to find detailed information about it. The latter is useful when you can spend more time, investigating relations and issues in the data. In many cases, they compliment each other.