What are descriptive statistics and how are they used?
Descriptive statistics are used to organize, summarize and describe the attributes of a set of data. A set of data, especially numeric data, are often referred to as a distribution. A category of descriptive statistics is those measures that describe a distribution using one measure and can be thought of as describing “middle’ or typical score within a distribution. These measures of central tendency, such as the mean, median, and mode, are typically used as the best summary of a…