descriptive statistics

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the use of statistics to describe a set of known data in a clear and concise manner, as in terms of its mean and variance, or diagramatically, as by a histogram Compare statistical inference

Example Sentences

Researchers analyzed the data through descriptive statistics changes in biomarkers, as well as standardized surveys of well-being and mood.

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The counting starts with descriptive statistics on the daily state of the pandemic — who’s infected, who’s sick, how many have died.

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“My main fear is that these results will be over-interpreted. They are informative descriptive statistics, but descriptive nonetheless.”

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Descriptive statistics have been provided in the figure legends.

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They write, “While economists and expert commentators have tended to downplay the outsized role assigned to declining manufacturing employment in the U.S. economic debate — what economist Jagdish Bhagwati dubs ‘manufacturing fetishism’ — simple descriptive statistics support the contention that manufacturing jobs are a fulcrum on which traditional work and family arrangements rest.”

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