#14 Descriptive Statistics

Social Research Methods by Armin Trost

Oct 26, 202033:21Science & Medicine

Descriptive statistics involves methods, that describe the central tendency and dispersion of data. In most practical cases they relate to single (univariate) variables. All slides to the entire series can be downloaded...

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