Descriptive statistics are used to analyze and summarize data. There are two types of descriptive measures: measures of central tendency that describe a typical response like the mode, median, and mean; and measures of variability that reveal the typical difference between values like the range and standard deviation. Statistical analysis can be descriptive to summarize data, inferential to make conclusions about a population, differences to compare groups, associative to determine relationships, or predictive to forecast events. Data coding and a code book are used to identify codes for questionnaire responses.