descriptive statistics definition

descriptive statistics

Mathematical methods (such as mean, median, standard deviation) that summarize and interpret some of the properties of a set of data (sample) but do not infer the properties of the population from which the sample was drawn. See also inferential statistics.

descriptive statistics is in the Statistics, Mathematics, & Analysis subject.

descriptive statistics appears in the definition of the following term: statistics

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