04 March 2018

🔬Data Science: Descriptive Statistics (Definitions)

"Numbers that summarize how questionnaire items were answered. Descriptive statistics include frequency, percentage, cumulative frequency, and cumulative percentage." (Teri Lund & Susan Barksdale, "10 Steps to Successful Strategic Planning", 2006)

"Statistics that characterize the central tendency, variability, and shape of a variable." (Glenn J Myatt, "Making Sense of Data: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining", 2006)

"Describe the values in a set. For example, if you sum a set of values, that sum is a descriptive statistic. If you find the largest value or the smallest value in a set of numbers, that’s also a descriptive statistic." (E C Nelson & Stephen L Nelson, "Excel Data Analysis For Dummies ", 2015)

"Those statistics or statistical procedures that summarise and/or describe the characteristics of a sample of scores." (K  N Krishnaswamy et al, "Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques", 2016)

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