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The Data Insight Quiz

Test your knowledge of descriptive statistics and discover how well you understand the fundamental principles of data analysis. This quiz covers a range of topics including measures of central tendency and the interpretation of various data types.

Assess your understanding of key statistical concepts
Explore qualitative and quantitative measures
Engage with practical examples

15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by AnalyzingData42

Descriptive statistics can be described as:

Brief descriptive coefficients that summarise a given dataset.

Process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying distribution of probability.

Tools that statisticians use to draw conclusions about the characteristics of a population, drawn from the characteristics of a sample, and to decide how certain they can be of the reliability of those conclusions.

Measures of descriptive statistics include:

Regression, correlation, confidence intervals.

Mean, median, mode, standard deviation.

What is the Mode?

The sum of all values divided by the number of values.

The middle value of all the values when ordered from lowest to highest.

The most frequent value.

What is Standard Deviation?

Compare values to a normalised value.

A measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean.

Shows how often a value appears in the dataset.

Qualitative or quantitative?

	Continuous	Discrete	Qualitative
Number of GP practices
Age (10, 26, 38, 64)
Gender (Male, Female)
Count of staff in a company
Case study
Time to wake up
The amount of time required to complete a task
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