Question

True or false.

You perform a study to see how long the grass in your yard will live if you dont water it all summer. You conclude that no one's yard can live for more than three weeks without water. This is an example of descriptive statistics.

Answer 1

Descriptive statistics is the term given to the analysis of data that helps describe, show or summarize data in a meaningful way such that, for example, patterns might emerge from the data.

Answer 2

Given this definition, what is your guess?

Answer 3

The sentence is true.

Answer 4

I thought it was false, the definition in my book says "the process of describing the characteristics of a group (a sample) for which we have data"

Answer 5

With the definition given in your book, it is false.

Answer 6

ok thanks!