Meanings
noundescriptive statistics (uncountable)
- uncountablemathematicsA branch of statistics dealing with summarization and description of collections of data—data sets, including the concepts of arithmetic mean, median, mode, and quantile.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 描述統計學 /描述统计学
- 描述統計學 /描述统计学 (miáoshù tǒngjìxué)branch of statistics
Czech popisná statistika
- popisná statistikabranch of statistics
Finnish deskriptiivinen tilastotiede
- deskriptiivinen tilastotiedebranch of statistics
French statistique descriptive
- statistique descriptivebranch of statistics
German beschreibende Statistik, deskriptive Statistik
- beschreibende Statistikbranch of statistics
- deskriptive Statistikbranch of statistics
Italian statistica descrittiva
- statistica descrittivabranch of statistics
Portuguese estatística descritiva
- estatística descritivabranch of statistics
Russian описа́тельная стати́стика
- описа́тельная стати́стика (opisátelʹnaja statístika)branch of statistics
Spanish estadística descriptiva
- estadística descriptivabranch of statistics
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