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  • https://stats.libretexts.org/Courses/American_River_College/STAT_300%3A_My_Introductory_Statistics_Textbook_(Mirzaagha)/01%3A_Basic_Ideas/1.04%3A_Introduction_to_Statistics/1.4.03%3A_Descriptive_Statistics
    Descriptive statistics are numbers that are used to summarize and describe data. The word "data" refers to the information that has been collected from an experiment, a survey, a historical record, et...Descriptive statistics are numbers that are used to summarize and describe data. The word "data" refers to the information that has been collected from an experiment, a survey, a historical record, etc. Descriptive statistics are just descriptive. They do not involve generalizing beyond the data at hand. Generalizing from our data to another set of cases is the business of inferential statistics.
  • https://stats.libretexts.org/Courses/Luther_College/Psyc_350%3ABehavioral_Statistics_(Toussaint)/01%3A_Introduction_to_Statistics/1.03%3A_Descriptive_Statistics
    Descriptive statistics are numbers that are used to summarize and describe data. The word "data" refers to the information that has been collected from an experiment, a survey, a historical record, et...Descriptive statistics are numbers that are used to summarize and describe data. The word "data" refers to the information that has been collected from an experiment, a survey, a historical record, etc. Descriptive statistics are just descriptive. They do not involve generalizing beyond the data at hand. Generalizing from our data to another set of cases is the business of inferential statistics.

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