what are the types of descriptive statistics 
the three main types of descriptive statistics are frequency distribution central tendency and variability of a data set the frequency distribution records how often data occurs central tendency records the data s center point of distribution and variability of a data set records its degree of dispersion can descriptive statistics be used to make inferences or predictions technically speaking descriptive statistics only serves to help understand historical data attributes inferential statistics a separate branch of statistics is used to understand how variables interact with one another in a data set and possibly predict what might happen in the future 5the bottom linedescriptive statistics refers to the analysis summary and communication of findings that describe a data set often not useful for decision making descriptive statistics still hold value in explaining high level summaries of a set of information such as the mean median mode variance range and count of information 