Qualitative vs. Quantitative describe recent study and whether the data is discrete or continous and what type of graph sed anad why Solution Descriptive statistics generally characterizes or describes a set of data elements by graphically displaying the information or describing its central tendancies and how it is distributed.Inferential statistics tries to infer information about a population by using information gathered by sampling.Statistics: The collection of methods used in planning an experiment and analyzing data in order to draw accurate conclusions..