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6/21/2021: New English Definition (Descriptive Statistics) #326

Open semyredda opened 3 years ago

semyredda commented 3 years ago

slug: descriptivestat ref: -mean -median -mode -standard deviation en: term: Descriptive Statistics def: > information that describes or summarizes the characteristics of a data set, such as mean, standard deviation, or sample size.

eoverstr commented 3 years ago

slug: descriptivestat ref: -mean -median -mode -standard deviation -variance -central tendency -variability -dispersion -kurtosis -skewness -minimum value -maximum value -range en: term: Descriptive Statistic def: > information that describes or summarizes the characteristics of a data set, such as mean, standard deviation, variance, or sample size.

slug: descriptivestats ref: -mean -median -mode -standard deviation -variance -central tendency -variability -dispersion -kurtosis -skewness -minimum value -maximum value -range en: term: Descriptive Statistics def: > process of using and analyzing a set of descriptive statistics. The purpose of descriptive statistics is to summarize a sample. This differs from inferential statistics which summarizes the population that the sample is thought to represent.