Descriptive statistics are used to describe data in ways that are manageable and easily understood. They describe a population and summarize data that can help us easily get a sense of the data. Explain the importance of using descriptive statistics to simplify the large amounts of data with ease and why by doing this will benefit the facility.

Describe central tendency and measures of variability, or spread.

Explain how descriptive statistics could benefit a specific aspect or department of a facility.

1 page, approx 200 words