AP PSYCHOLOGY

RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DESCRIPTION

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It is a brief descriptive coefficients that summarize a given data set, which can be either a representation of the entire or a sample of a population. It is called?
A
Analysis
B
Descriptive statistics
C
Totality
D
Description Theory
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Descriptive statistics are brief informational coefficients that summarize a given data set, which can be either a representation of the entire population or a sample of a population. Descriptive statistics are broken down into measures of central tendency and measures of variability (spread).

Detailed explanation-2: -Descriptive statistics is the term given to the analysis of data that helps describe, show or summarize data in a meaningful way such that, for example, patterns might emerge from the data.

Detailed explanation-3: -The distribution is a summary of the frequency of individual values or ranges of values for a variable. The simplest distribution would list every value of a variable and the number of persons who had each value.

Detailed explanation-4: -Descriptive statistics summarize and organize characteristics of a data set. A data set is a collection of responses or observations from a sample or entire population.

Detailed explanation-5: -Central tendency is a descriptive summary of a dataset through a single value that reflects the center of the data distribution.

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