Descriptive statistics is the branch of statistics concerned with the collection, organization, summation and presentation of data.
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The two main forms of statistics are qualitative (descriptive) statistics and quantitative (inferential or inductive) statistics.
Descriptive and Inferencial statistic
There are two types of statistics. One is called descriptive statistics and the other is inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics is when you use numbers. Inferential statistics is when you draw conclusions or make predictions.
Descriptive statistics are meant to describe the situation such as the average or the range. Inferential statistics is used to differentiate between a couple of groups.
Will a sample descriptive statistics accurately estimate the underlying population's parameters?