After Amanda selects a sample of college students, she obtains the students' scores on several personality scales and on a test of creativity. She wants to summarize her sample's performance on the creativity test, so she computes _____ statistics.

After Amanda selects a sample of college students, she obtains the students' scores on several personality scales and on a test of creativity. She wants to summarize her sample's performance on the creativity test, so she computes descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics are used in describing or summarizing a data in a way that is meaningful and useful, there are four major types of descriptive statistics, these are;

1. Measures of Frequency; Count, Percent, Frequency.

2. Measures of Central Tendency; Mean, Median, and Mode.

3. Measures of Dispersion or Variation; Range, Variance, Standard Deviation.

4. Measures of Position; Percentile Ranks, Quartile Ranks.