Descriptive Part

Normality: Part descriptive, part prescriptive.

People's beliefs about normality play an important role in many aspects of cognition and life (e.g., causal cognition, linguistic semantics, cooperative behavior). But how do people determine what sorts of things are normal in the first place? Past research has studied both people's representations of statistical norms (e.g., the average) and their representations of prescriptive norms (e.g., t...

Statistics for dental researcher, Part 2: Descriptive statistics

Descriptive statistics is the process of summarizing gathered raw data from a research and creating useful statistics, which help the better understanding of data. According to the types of variables, which consist of qualitative and quantitative variables, some descriptive statistics have been introduced. Frequency percentage is used in qualitative data, and mean, median, mode, standard deviat...

Introduction to biostatistics: Part 2, Descriptive statistics.

Descriptive statistics include measures of central tendency and variability. Measures of central tendency include mean, median, and mode. The mean is the arithmetic average of data from interval or ratio scales. The median reflects the 50th percentile score. The mode is the most frequently occurring value of a data distribution. Measures of variability include range, interquartile range, standa...

RM-ODP Part 2 Descriptive Model 1993

This is the Yokohama version of Part 2 of the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing.It has been reformatted from the ascii version but not edited (some cross-references have been corrected). The figures were redrawn and are from the Frame version of the 1992 CD. The official version of Part 2 can be obtained from the ODP anonymous FTP site in directory RM-ODP. ISO...

Traffic fatalities in Rhode Island: Part I--Descriptive epidemiology.