What is Statistics?
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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 a way of reasoning, along with a collection of tools and methods, designed to help us understand the real world and make decisions. • Statistics translates data into knowledge and understanding of the world around us. • Statistics is about how to think clearly with data.
What is Statistics?
• Statistics is the class I have to pass to satisfy my core math requirement!