Summary statisticsIn descriptive statistics, summary statistics are used to summarize a set of observations, in order to communicate the largest amount of information as simply as possible. Statisticians commonly try to describe the observations in a measure of location, or central tendency, such as the arithmetic mean a measure of statistical dispersion like the standard mean absolute deviation a measure of the shape of the distribution like skewness or kurtosis if more than one variable is measured, a measure of statistical dependence such as a correlation coefficient A common collection of order statistics used as summary statistics are the five-number summary, sometimes extended to a seven-number summary, and the associated box plot.
Five-number summaryThe five-number summary is a set of descriptive statistics that provides information about a dataset. It consists of the five most important sample percentiles: the sample minimum (smallest observation) the lower quartile or first quartile the median (the middle value) the upper quartile or third quartile the sample maximum (largest observation) In addition to the median of a single set of data there are two related statistics called the upper and lower quartiles.
MotivationLa motivation désigne, au sein d'un organisme vivant, la composante ou le processus en jeu pour l'engagement dans une activité précise. Elle en détermine le déclenchement, la direction, l'intensité et en assure la prolongation jusqu'à l'aboutissement ou l'interruption. Cette notion se distingue du potentiel, de l'odorat ou encore de l'optimisme. La motivation prend de nos jours une place de premier plan dans les organisations. Elle est déterminante pour l'apprentissage (y compris chez les nourrissons) et génère la productivité dans de nombreuses activités personnelles ou professionnelles.
Work motivationWork motivation is a person's internal disposition toward work. To further this, an incentive is the anticipated reward or aversive event available in the environment. While motivation can often be used as a tool to help predict behavior, it varies greatly among individuals and must often be combined with ability and environmental factors to actually influence behavior and performance. Results from a 2012 study, which examined age-related differences in work motivation, suggest a "shift in people's motives" rather than a general decline in motivation with age.
