Descriptive vs.

Inferencial Statistics
Descriptive vs. Inferencial
Statistics
Types of variables

 Qualitative: Nonnumeric
(gender, state of birth, eye color, etc.)

 Quantitative: Numeric
- Discrete: number of students in the class,
number of cars sold in 2015, etc.
- Continuous: class time until break, weight,
salary, etc.
Types of variables (Lind, p.9)
Levels of measurement (Lind, p. 13)
Frequency tables and graphs
Frequency tables and graphs

Example
Suppose that the following data sets reports the movie
just seen for each person in a sample of 25 people:
02,04,01,01,04,03,02,05,01,02,04,02,01,04,05,02,01,01,03,02,
04,05,02,01,02
(01=Cars, 02=Over the Hedge, 03=The Break-Up, 04=ET,
05=The Omen)
The frequency table is:
Movie Number of people
Cars 7
Over the Hedge 8
The Break-Up 2
ET 5
The Omen 3
Frequency tables and graphs

The relative frequency table is:

Movie Proportion of people

Cars =7/25=0.28
Over the Hedge 0.32
The Break-Up 0.08
ET 0.20
The Omen 0.12
Frequency tables and graphs
Frequency tables and graphs
Grouped data and histograms
Grouped data and histograms
Grouped data and histograms
Grouped data and histograms
Grouped data and histograms
Sets of paired data and scatter plots
Sets of paired data and scatter plots
Sets of paired data and scatter plots
Sets of paired data and scatter plots
Measures of location
Sample mean
Properties of the sample mean
Properties of the sample mean
Sample median
Sample median
Properties of the sample median
Sample mode
Range and mean deviation
Sample variance and standard deviation
Measures of position
Percentiles
Box plots
Box plots
Reference
Lind, D.A., Marchal, W.C., Wathen, S.A., (2015), “Statistical
Techniques in Business and Economics”, McGraw Hill,
16ª edición