Descriptive Statistics Calculator

Summary Statistics, Histograms and Boxplots

Use this free descriptive statistics calculator to compute summary statistics, generate histograms and create boxplots for exploratory data analysis and distribution assessment.

After exploring your data with descriptive statistics, you can continue with our statistical inference tools to calculate confidence intervals and perform hypothesis tests.

What is a descriptive statistics calculator?

A descriptive statistics calculator summarizes a dataset using measures such as the mean, median, variance, standard deviation, quartiles, range, skewness and kurtosis. It helps you understand the center, variability and shape of a distribution before performing more advanced statistical analyses.

How to use the descriptive statistics calculator

  1. Paste your data from Excel or Google Sheets into the data field.
  2. Select whether the first row contains variable names.
  3. Choose the analysis tab: summary statistics, histograms or boxplots.
  4. Click Calculate to generate the results.

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What statistics are included?

The calculator provides common descriptive measures including sample size, minimum, maximum, range, quartiles, median, mean, variance and standard deviation. It also calculates standard error, 95% confidence intervals, skewness and kurtosis.

You can also assess the distribution of your data using histograms, boxplots and the Shapiro-Wilk normality test.