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Quantitative Data Analysis
Simply Explained Using SPSS

Unit # 2

Descriptive Statistics

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this unit, readers will be able to:

 Understand different procedures of descriptive statistics.

 Distinguish between descriptive and inferential statistics.
 Clear the concepts about measure of central tendency and
measure of dispersion.
 Calculate different descriptive statistics by hand.
 Get ready to comprehend later units on inferential

statistics.

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Types of Statistics

Statistics is the science of decision making. Statistics is the process
of collecting, organizing, tabulating, analyzing, interpreting, and
inferring the data. This definition contains few processes like
collecting, organizing, tabulating, analyzing, interpreting, and
inferring the data. Through-out this book we will understand how
can we analyze, interpret and infer from the data. Mainly the
Statistics is divided into two major sections:

The Theory and Applications of Statistical Inferences 10