The correct answer is Descriptive analytics.

Descriptive analytics summarizes past events using historical records and produces reports that show what happened without attempting to forecast outcomes or recommend actions. This category includes dashboards, aggregates, and routine reporting that provide insight into prior performance rather than predicting future trends or prescribing decisions.

Predictive analytics is incorrect because it uses statistical models and machine learning to forecast future outcomes and probabilities and it therefore goes beyond merely summarizing past records.

Prescriptive analytics is incorrect because it aims to recommend actions or policies using optimization or simulation rather than only summarizing historical events.

Diagnostic analytics is incorrect because it focuses on finding causes and explanations for past events and it often involves drilling into data to understand why something happened instead of just summarizing what happened.

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