Descriptive Statistics is the field of statistics that defines or characterizes a population based upon the values of your sample data points taken from that population. A Population is made up of ...

Sample size indicates how many people there are in the sample – in this example it may be 35 (indicating 35 different hearing BSL learners). Descriptive statistics are reported in the Results section.

A descriptive statistic is used to summarize sample data. A test statistic is used in statistical hypothesis testing. Here is a table describing both population parameters and sample statistics ...