Notes on Descriptive Statistics

Related Sites on the Web

The subject of descriptive statistics is fundamentally about real data, so please visit the following sites for a wealth of interesting data sets and activities

• Chance Database
• Data and Story Library

For some interactive applets similar to the ones in this module, visit the following sites:

• Experimental Interactive Statistics Pages
• Descriptive Statistics (introduction to Mode- Median- and Mean)

There are many excellent statistics texts that give comprehensive, elementary treatments of descriptive statistics. See, for example,

• Introductory Statistics by Weis
• Statistics by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves

Descriptive Statistics