ClaudSkills / Science & Research / math-stats

Descriptive Statistics

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: math-stats

Summarizing and visualizing data through measures of center, spread, shape, and position. Covers mean, median, mode, range, IQR, variance, standard deviation, percentiles, z-scores, five-number summaries, and graphical displays (histograms, box plots, stem-and-leaf, dot plots, scatter plots). Emphasizes choosing the right summary for the data's shape and scale. Use when summarizing datasets, choosing visualizations, computing summary statistics, or interpreting distributions.

What this skill does

Descriptive Statistics is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the math-stats sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/descriptive-statistics/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when summarizing datasets, choosing visualizations, computing summary statistics, or interpreting distributions.

Who uses this skill

The Descriptive Statistics skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/descriptive-statistics
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/descriptive-statistics/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/descriptive-statistics/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/descriptive-statistics/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/descriptive-statistics/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\descriptive-statistics\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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