Classes of Descriptive Statistics

The 4 Classes of Descriptive Statistics

There are many ways to describe data because, there are many types of descriptive statistics and many individual descriptive statistics.

• There are four classes of descriptive statistics.
  • Central Tendency
  • Dispersion
  • Shape
  • Relationship
• Each class tells Bob something about how his rigs are producing.
• Each class of Descriptive Statistics tells us something about how scores are distributed.