Statistics Corner: Reporting Descriptive Statistics

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...

Descriptive statistics.

Statistics is a science that provides precise techniques for collecting and sorting information made easy by tools and methods for further analysis. The object of descriptive statistics, from sample data, is to describe the most important characteristics, by which we refer to those amounts that provide information on the topic of interest which we are studying.

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

1 Introduction to statistics and simple descriptive statistics

This chapter discusses several topics, from why statistics is important in anthropological research to statistical notation. The first section (statistics and scientific enquiry) defines basic scientific terms and explains the role of statistics in anthropological research. The second section (basic definitions) reviews the vocabulary we need for the rest of the book. The third section (statist...

Chapter 14 . Inferential Statistics , Descriptive Statistics and The Analysis Plan

Provided that the data show that a compound is safe, it is the primary efficacy analysis that determines whether the compound is approved. The secondary analyses support, clarify and confirm, but only one prospectively planned efficacy analysis can be primary in support of an effectiveness claim for a given trial. Why should this be so? And how can we design the trial and set up the primary eff...