Descriptive statistics ki definition

Descriptive statistics are brief informational coefficients that summarize a given data set, which can be either a representation of the entire population or a sample of a population.
Descriptive statistics are broken down into measures of central tendency and measures of variability (spread).

Which number counts as a descriptive statistic?

Any other number we choose to compute also counts as a descriptive statistic for the data from which the statistic is computed

Several descriptive statistics are often used at one time, to give a full picture of the data

Descriptive statistics are just descriptive

They do not involve generalizing beyond the data at hand