Question

In six sentences or more, explain how you would use the descriptive statistical procedure(s) at work or in your personal life.

Answer 1

Descriptive statistics:

* it is used to describe the basic features of the data in a study

* they provide simple summaries about the sample and measures

* it is also used to distinguish data in manner that ate significance and useful

* it is a generalized statement that describe the results of an analysis

1.Descriptive statistics help us to simplify large amount of data in a sensible way

2. the descriptive statistics reduce lots of data in to a simpler summary

3.it provide information about immediate group of data that means, it is limited to make summation about the data that one has actually measured

4.there are no uncertainties about the measured values

Examples,finding the average of a set of a data

5.consider the scourge of many students,the GPA ,the single no.of describes the general performance of a student across a potentially wide range of course  experiences

here GPA means Grade Point Average

The GPA doesn't tell you whether the students was in difficult courses or easy courses

the descriptive statistics provide a power full summary that may enable comparsions across people or other units

its also examine any specific pattern or the trend for easy understand of a non technologies person

EXAMPLE:a descriptive analysis of quantitative data can provide statement that the average no.of defectives in each sample