Difference between display descriptive statistics and graphical summary. As the name suggests, display descriptive statistics only displays the mean, median, mode kurtosis, skewness and other descriptive statistics. The graphical summary not only displays key descriptive variables, but also performs an Anderson darling normality test and confidence intervals of Mean, Median and the standard deviations are calculated. The primary output of display descriptive statistics tool appears in the session window. Although you can additionally choose to graph a histogram or individual value plot or a box plot. The primary output of graphical summary are for graphs and an additional table of data.

The four graphs include histograms have data with an overlaid normal curve boxplot 95% confidence intervals for the mean and 95% confidence intervals for the median. Display descriptive statistics fail to provide a comprehensive overview of numeric data. It only provides descriptive statistics. In comparison to display descriptive statistics. The graphical summary provides a more comprehensive picture of the given data. Descriptive Statistics is like a subset of graphical summary.

After understanding these differences, it is time to learn how to perform a graphical summary on Minitab