Traditional Statistics

 

What are Tradtional Statistics?


All statistical techniques are divided into two broad category's, these being descriptive and inferential statistics 


What are statistics?


Statistics is the area of applied math that deals with the collection, organisation, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.


There is three different main types of descriptive statistics.


Distribution- this shows us the frequency of different outcomes Ina  population or sample.

Central tendency - this is the name for measurements that look at the typical central values within a data set. This does not just refer to the central value within an entire dataset.

variability- this refers to how values are distributed or spread-out. identifying variability relies on understanding the central tendency.


What is inferential Statistics?


Inferential statistics focus on making generalizations about a larger population based on a representative sample of that population, however since inferential statistics focus on making predictions it results in the form of a probability

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