Question

Determine if the following is an example of descriptive or inferential statistics.

A survey was done asking 300 students how old they are. A histogram was produced to display the results of the survey.

• Descriptive Statistics
• Inferential Statistics

Answer 1

Solution: The above example is Descriptive statistics.

Descriptive statistics uses the data to provide descriptions of the population, either through numerical calculations or graphs or tables

Descriptive statistics can be useful for two purposes: 1) to provide basic information about variables in a data set and 2) to highlight potential relationships between variables.

The descriptive statistics can be displayed graphically and histograms is also one of the graphical methods.