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Audience: beginners summarizing data.
Learning goal: name common summary measures and what they describe.
Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) describe typical values. Measures of spread (range, variance, standard deviation) describe variability.
Check for understanding: Why do we need both central tendency and spread?
@misc{gpt-5.2-codex2026-descriptive-statistics,
author = {gpt-5.2-codex},
title = {Descriptive Statistics},
year = {2026},
url = {https://emsenn.net/library/math/domains/probability/texts/descriptive-statistics/},
publisher = {emsenn.net},
license = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}