statistics

methods of collecting and analysing numerical data.
a group of data.
Businesspeople make considerable use of statistical methods such as collecting SAMPLES in order to make STATISTICAL INFERENCES in such areas as MARKETING RESEARCH and QUALITY CONTROL. They also use government economic data in monitoring changes in the business environment.

statistics

a branch of mathematics that studies the theory and methods of collecting, tabulating and analysing numerical data.
a grouping of data. Economic analysis makes extensive use of economic data, which are subjected to statistical analysis in order to test ECONOMIC THEORIES. See HYPOTHESIS TESTING, ECONOMETRICS.

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Table 2 presents the descriptive statistics pertinent to Debt to Total Fund ratio.

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This section will present the descriptive statistics and results of the data analysis.

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Frequency is calculated by frequency test in descriptive statistic. Mean and SD is calculated by group statistic, p- value is calculated by Pearson correlation statistic in SPSS-20.

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Majority of the articles used descriptive statistics: 50 (67.6%) from 2005, 135 (75.4%) from 2010 and 130 (74.0) from 2015.

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In descriptive statistics of employees of banking shows, respect to you where N is the sample size which is 350 and minimum is 4 which is agree and the maximum is 5 which is strongly agree and mean is 4.49 and standard deviation is .501 which shows some variation on results that results is in between agree and strongly agree.

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A notable exception to this was Li and Lo's (Chapter 12) use of the recently introduced 2011 Canadian National Household Survey (NHS) for some basic descriptive statistics for the Vancouver CMA.

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Part 2 and 3 on descriptive statistics can be clubbed together with two sub-sections: 'Graphs and Tables' and 'Numerical Measures'.

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Descriptive statistics results for 'customers' (Table 7) differentiate again by negative claim nr.

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Table 2 provides the descriptive statistics of the means for each quarter for the ten DCF variables.

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