About Lesson
Introduction
Brief informative coefficients known as descriptive statistics are used to sum up a particular data set, which may be a sample of a population or a representation of the complete population. In a nutshell, descriptive statistics provide brief summaries of the sample and data measurements to aid in describing and understanding the characteristics of a particular data set.
The most used descriptive measures are:
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Measures of Spread
References
Lazar, J. , Feng, J. H., Hochheiser, H. (2017), Research methods in human-computer interaction: Morgan Kaufmann, 2017.
Dix, A. (2020). Statistics for HCI: Making Sense of Quantitative Data. Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Robertson, J., & Kaptein, M. (2016). An introduction to modern statistical methods in HCI (pp. 1-14). Springer International Publishing.
Larson-Hall, J. (2015). A guide to doing statistics in second language research using SPSS and R. Routledge.
Aldrich, J. O. (2018). Using IBM SPSS statistics: An interactive hands-on approach. Sage Publications.