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What is descriptive statistics?

What is descriptive statistics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (statistics) A branch of statistics dealing with summarization and description of collections of data—data sets, including the concepts of arithmetic mean, median, mode, and quantile.
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Frequencies, range, percentile, and standard deviation are used for descriptive statistics.
In the case of quantitative data, descriptive statistics and, in some cases, statistical tests are used to provide meaning to raw numbers.
Prevalence will be calculated and description of the demographic and clinical features will be done using descriptive statistics.
Summary descriptive statistics were computed by using proportions or medians and interquartile ranges.
The descriptive statistics vary with number of samples, and tribometers report average friction values based on different sample sizes.
Survey questions were initially evaluated using simple descriptive statistics.

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