noun
descriptive statistics
The branch of statistics that summarizes and describes data, as opposed to inferential statistics.
記述統計学では、平均や標準偏差を使ってデータの特徴を要約する。
In descriptive statistics, we summarize data characteristics using measures like the mean and standard deviation.
Inferential statistics, which draws conclusions from data, as opposed to descriptive statistics which merely summarizes it.
Compound of 記述 (description) + 統計学 (statistics). A modern technical term.