Descriptive statistics

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Descriptive statistics

Descriptive stats are what most people think stats are all about. Many people believe that the simple observation of more or less, or the mere calculation of an average value is what statistics are all about. The media often shows us such descriptive statistics in whimsical bar plots or even pie charts.

Mean

Median

Mode

Range

Standard deviation

External Links

Videos

Descriptive Statistics: A whole video series about descriptive statistics from the Khan academy

Articles