Heavy-Tailed Dataset

A Heavy-Tailed Dataset is a dataset that can be represented by a heavy-tailed distribution.

• Context:
  • It can range from being Long-Tailed Dataset to being a Fat-Tailed Dataset.
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• Example(s):
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Normally Distributed Dataset.
• See: Fat-Tailed, Long-Tailed.

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References

2015

• (Chamandy et al., 2015) ⇒ Nicholas Chamandy, Omkar Muralidharan, and Stefan Wager. (2015). “Teaching Statistics at Google-Scale.” In: The American Statistician, 69(4).
  • QUOTE: Modern data and applications pose very different challenges from those of the 1950s or even the 1980s. Students contemplating a career in statistics or data science need to have the tools to tackle problems involving massive, heavy-tailed data, often interacting with live, complex systems.

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