descriptive statistics

British

noun

(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

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

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2024

This area of statistics is called descriptive statistics.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

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

From Nature • Oct. 20, 2019

We could not do that before when we were doing descriptive statistics because those data were univariate.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

In descriptive statistics, as in so many things besides, yet another model is left to us, before the freedom a nd greatness of the city sank into the grave.

From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob

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