Types of statistics

Descriptive statistics

Here we are summarizing the data, we are describing the characteristics of data and finding relation among the variables in data

What do we perform in descriptive statistics?

  • We calculate central tendency – Mean, median and mode
  • We also calculate measure of dispersion – Standard deviation and Variance
  • Univariate analysis – Analysis done on single variable
  • Bivariate analysis – Analysis done on 2 variable
  • Multivariate analysis – Analysis done on 2 or more variables

Inferential statistics

Here we are coming with conclusions over population (Larger population) based on sample data (sample population)

What do we perform in inferential statistics?

  • We do hypothesis testing with z test, Ptest, Ftest, chisquare, Anova
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