the use of statistics to describe a set of known data in a clear and concise manner, as in terms of its mean and variance, or diagrammatically, as by a histogram
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Examples of 'descriptive statistics' in a sentence
descriptive statistics
Data analysis used descriptive statistics.
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Descriptive statistics was carried out.
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