descriptive statistics
Noun
Meaning
descriptive statistics (uncountable)
(statistics) A branch of statistics dealing with summarization and description of collections of data—data sets, including the concepts of arithmetic mean, median, mode, and quantile.
Examples
Descriptive statistics can be used to summarize the population data.
Descriptive statistics provide simple summaries of our data.
Descriptive statistics is solely concerned with properties of the observed data, and does not assume that the data came from a larger population.