UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST.

COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT
STUDIES
COURSE: BIOSTATICS
REGISTRATION NUMBER: AH/PAS/22/0091.
NAME: AMPONSAH WINIFRED KIMBERLY-
KAYLA
TOPIC: DISCUSS DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY.
 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST.

COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT
STUDIES.
COURSE: BIOSTATICS.
REGISTRATION NUMBER: AH/PAS/22/0091.
NAME: AMPONSAH WINIFRED KIMBERLY-
KAYLA.
TOPIC: DISCUSS DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY
INTRODUCTION.
Biostatics is the science of collecting, organizing, summarizing, analyzing, presenting and
interpreting biologic or health data using statistical methods. To be good in biostatics, you will
need to have interest in health and biological research, enjoy solving mathematics, etc.
Statistics is the study and handling of data, as well as ways to gather, review, analyze and draw
conclusions from data. The two major areas are descriptive and inferential statistics.
Data are a set of numeric or non-numeric observations on characteristics of a target population.

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS.
Descriptive statistics are summary statistics that quantitatively describes or summarizes features
from a collection of information. Common measures include mean, median, mode, range,
standard deviation and variance. They provide insights into the central tendency, dispersion and
shape of the data distribution.
Histograms and box plots visualize data distribution.
Descriptive statistics is broken down into measures of central tendency and measures of
variability.
Central Tendency measures the center or average of a data set.
The mean is the sum of all values divided by the number of observations.
E.g., 2, 4,6,2,7,9,10,8
Mean 2+4+6+2+7+9+10+8
8
Mean= 48
8
=6
The median is the middle number in a sorted ascending or descending list of numbers
To calculate for the median of the numbers above, you arrange it in ascending order
E.g., 2, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
The middle numbers are 6 and 7, since the middle numbers are two, you add the two numbers
and divide by two.
6+7 = 13
13/2 = 6.5
Therefore, the median number is 6.5
The mode is the most frequent occurring value.
The most frequent value of the above numbers is 2.

Measures of variability quantify the spread or dispersion of a set of data points. Common
measures include;
Range is the difference between the maximum and minimum values in a dataset.
Variance is the measure of hie far each data point in the set is from the mean.
Standard Deviation is the square root of the variance, providing a more interpretable measured
of the average distance between each data point and the mean
Interquartile Range (IQR) is the range of values within the central 50% of the data, calculated
as the difference between the third quartile and the first quartile.
These measures help to understand the variability and distribution of data points in a dataset.
REFERENCE
 https://www.en.m.wikipedia.org
 https://www.investopedia.com