Timeline for Statistics on Harry Potter chapter length
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| Jul 1, 2021 at 11:14 | vote | accept | ibid | ||
| Jan 23, 2019 at 21:02 | comment | added | ibid | @Ongo - But how would you calculate standard deviation without even knowing all the chapter lengths? Unless I'm really misunderstanding how statistics works that seems completely impossible given your data. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 15:59 | comment | added | Ongo | You've not gonna believe this, but I was up to Prisoner of Azkaban doing individual word counts of all of the Pottermore ePubs myself! Can't remember exactly how I got Excel to calculate my standard deviation but it wasn't just using a built in function, I had to mess around with a few functions together to get the weighted one. Yours is about double mine, so I wonder if I factored a half into it accidentally. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 10:32 | comment | added | ibid | @Valorum - My goal here was literally wanting to know the average chapter length (ideally with some range to it, not just a single number). Conclusions are fun, but I think it would be overstepping my bounds here. Though what my data shows is that the bigger books not only have more chapters but longer length ones, and they tend to be longest towards the middle of the book. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 8:35 | comment | added | Valorum | Very interesting indeed. Could you draw some more general conclusions? For example about the author, writing time, profitability, etc | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 6:50 | history | answered | ibid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |