Just say the average age of 5 people is 17. This does not give the right impression of the data if 4 of the people are aged 5 or younger and the other person is in their seventies.
Chat with our AI personalities
what example for decriptive statistic
perameter is a measure of population or universe, statistic is a measure of a sample data drawn from population
The term misleading is the number that does not seem in pattern of the others.
"Misleading" means that it can easily make you draw wrong conclusions.
Statistics are values that give information about a group. For example, 60% of teens in the US graduate high school is a statistic because it gives a number, 60%, to tell information about a group of people, teenagers. (This statistic was made up for an example). Data is the information collected to formulate that statistic. Using the previous example, the data would be the numbers recorded of teens that graduate throughout the US to come up with 60%. Data develops a statistic, and a statistic provides information about a specific topic.