Descriptive statistics summarizes and interprets the ________ of a dataset.
- characteristics
- outliers
- population
- sample
Descriptive statistics summarizes and interprets the characteristics of a dataset. These characteristics can include measures of central tendency like mean, median, and mode, measures of dispersion like range, variance, and standard deviation, and measures of shape like skewness and kurtosis. This branch of statistics provides a summary about the samples and the measures that have been made. It's essentially a way to describe and summarize the data.
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