Types of Variables, Descriptive Statistics, and Sample Size

Feroze Kaliyadan; Vinay Kulkarni

doi:10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_468_18

Types of Variables, Descriptive Statistics, and Sample Size

Indian Dermatol Online J. 2019 Jan-Feb;10(1):82-86. doi: 10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_468_18.

Authors

Feroze Kaliyadan¹, Vinay Kulkarni²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, King Faisal University, Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Dermatology, Prayas Amrita Clinic, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Abstract

This short "snippet" covers three important aspects related to statistics - the concept of variables, the importance, and practical aspects related to descriptive statistics and issues related to sampling - types of sampling and sample size estimation.

Keywords: Biostatistics; descriptive statistics; sample size; variables.