Heavy-Tailed Dataset
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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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- See: Fat-Tailed, Long-Tailed.
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.