What does descriptive statistics represent?

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philcua · Answer

Whatever you want them to

anonymous · Answer

Ok, so I'm dealing with qualitative data, and I'm aware that the mode is the only central tendency that is appropriate for qualitative data, so do I put that it represents the number that appears the most in a data set?

anonymous · Answer

@philcua

philcua · Answer

Be back in sec doing school work

anonymous · Answer

No problem.

philcua · Answer

Nice pic by the way 

  no because quantitative deals with numbers this deals with descriptions

philcua · Answer

May I have medal

anonymous · Answer

Thanks and you confused me..

anonymous · Answer

So what would the description be for the mode?

philcua · Answer

What do you mean

anonymous · Answer

I dunno, the questions says explain what these descriptive statistics represent and the only descriptive statistic for qualitative data is the mode

philcua · Answer

Which is descriptions not numbers

philcua · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

That website actually helps a ton, thank you.

philcua · Answer

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