title: Descriptive statistics.
abstract: In this article, we introduced basic concepts of statistics, type of distributions, and descriptive statistics. A few examples were also provided. The basic concepts presented herein are only a fraction of the concepts related to descriptive statistics. Also, there are many commonly used distributions not presented herein, such as Poisson distributions for rare events and exponential distributions, F distributions, and logistic distributions. More information can be found in many statistics books and publications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71103-4228, USA. rshi@lsuhsc.edu
authors.forename: Runhua
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Jerry W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: McLarty
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D009626:Terminology as Topic