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What is Statistics?. What some authors say. What is Statistics?. Statistics is a way of reasoning, along with a collection of tools and methods, designed to help us understand the real world and make decisions. (DVB)
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What is Statistics? What some authors say
What is Statistics? • Statistics is a way of reasoning, along with a collection of tools and methods, designed to help us understand the real world and make decisions. (DVB) • Statistics is the science of drawing conclusions from data, motivated by real world questions. (AS) • Statistics is about how to think clearly with data. (DVB)
What is Statistics? • Statistics is the art and science of learning from data. • Statistics is the study of how to collect, organize, analyze and interpret information from data. • Statistics is the science dealing with the collection, presentation, description and interpretation of data.
What is Statistics? • Statistics is the art of distilling meaning from data. • Statistics is the class I have to pass to satisfy my core math requirement!