descriptive statistics
(dis-kript-iv) the use of statistics to organize and present data in a study in an informative way that describes the basic features of the data and enables analysis.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... statistics Statistics that summarize the characteristics of a particular sample such as the attitude of a group towards aggression. Compare inferential statistics...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... statistics n. Summaries of numerical data that make them more easily interpretable, including especially the mean , variance , standard deviation , range , standard error of the mean, kurtosis , and skewness of a set of scores. The correlations between variables are also considered to be descriptive statistics by most statisticians. Compare inferential statistics...
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A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
... statistics [dis- kript -iv] n. the use of statistics to organize and present data in a study in an informative way that describes the basic features of the data and enables...
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A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
... statistics ( univariate statistics ) The branch of statistics that provides marketing researchers with a summary of the available data. Usually a single variable is analysed alone, such as the mean age of the consumers of a product or the consumption level of a type of...
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A Dictionary of Business Research Methods
... statistics The elementary statistical characteristics of a set of data relating to observations of a variable or variables. Includes: measures of central tendency ( mean , median , and mode ); and measures of dispersion ( standard deviation , variance , range , minimum , and maximum ). Inferences should not normally be drawn from these alone. See also inferential ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6 ed.)
...descriptive statistics The part of the subject of statistics concerned with describing the basic statistical features of a set of observations . Simple numerical summaries, using notions such as mean , range , and standard deviation , together with appropriate diagrams such as histograms , are used to present an overall impression of the...
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A Dictionary of Economics (5 ed.)
...descriptive statistics Summary measures that describe various characteristics of a set of data. Measures of central tendency include the mean , median , and mode . Measures of dispersion include the range , standard deviation , and variance . The relation between two or more variables can be described by the covariance and the correlation coefficient ....
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A Dictionary of Human Geography
...charts to communicate visually the pattern of how data are distributed. Spatial descriptive statistics can be used to describe the characteristics of point patterns, line, areas, and volumes. With respect to point patterns these might include the mean centre, median centre, standard distance (the average distance from points to the mean centre), and standard deviation ellipse (the variance in the distribution of data points). Further reading Lee, J. (2009), ‘Statistics, descriptive’, in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography . Kitchin, R. and Tate,...
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Abi Husainy
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...in India. See M. A. Hukk , H. Ethe , and E. Robertson , A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (1925). In most of Pakistan the reporting of births is not mandatory. It can be difficult to find records in rural areas. Major losses of records include the fires of 1948 , which engulfed the vast majority of the collections of vital statistics for the municipality of Karachi. The Registrar of Births and Deaths or the Director of Health Statistics in a municipality are the most likely sources for many types...
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Olav Veka and Lennart Ryman
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...surname, rather than Einarsen . In Norway today, the most common surname type is the habitational name from a farmstead, names that reflect the varied natural landscape with a finely tuned descriptive vocabulary. Of the 100 most common Norwegian surnames, forty-two are of the farmstead type and fifty-eight are patronymics. Patronymics top the population statistics, however, as the thirteen most widely used names. A good quarter of the Norwegian people have a patronymic surname, while most of the others, slightly fewer than three-quarters, have a farmstead...
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Dobrava Moldanová
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...house numbers. Examples are Anděl (owner or inhabitant of a house called ‘The Angel’; see Andel ), Kotva from a house called ‘The Anchor’), Závojský (from a house with a sign depicting a veil), Voclslon (from a house called vod Slona ‘at the sign of the Elephant’). Descriptive Epithets and Nicknames Another group consists of appellatives (i.e. common nouns, adjectives, verbs, particles, and interjections). It is quite diverse, encompassing the world of old Bohemia and its inhabitants—personal and social life, the natural environment, work, and...
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