A bakery owner asked 150 customers to taste a new type of cookie and found that 60 people liked its taste. 40% of the surveyed customers like the taste of the cookie. Is it an example of descriptive statistics?

Descriptive statistics are used to summarise the features or characteristics of a data or sample. It provides information on the features of sample collected.

Types of descriptive statistics

1. Measures of central tendency :

They include mean, median and mode

Mode refers to a value that appears most frequently in a data set.

Median can be described as the number that occurs in the middle of a set of numbers that are arranged either in ascending or descending order

Mean is the average of a set of numbers. It is determined by adding the numbers together and dividing it by the total number

Mean = sum of the numbers / total number

2. Measures of variation : It includes range, standard deviation and variance

3. Measure of position ; percentile and quartiles

4. Measure of frequency : count, percentage

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