Statistics: Module 2- Including descriptive statistics in academic papers

 

Module 2 talks about including descriptive statistics in academic papers. In order to decide which descriptive statistics to include in your paper, and how to include them, it is important to revisit what descriptive statistics tell a reader about the data. Even if you are not using quantitative data in your own papers, as a consumer of research it is important to understand what descriptive statistics are and know how to interpret them when you read scholarly papers that include them.

 

 

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