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Statistics is the discipline concerning the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It involves planning data collection through survey and experiment design. When a full census is not possible, statisticians use sampling methods to collect a representative sample from which inferences about the overall population can be drawn. There are two main statistical methods - descriptive statistics which summarize sample data using measures like the mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics which make probabilistic conclusions about populations based on random or observational errors in sample data.

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Statistics is the discipline concerning the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It involves planning data collection through survey and experiment design. When a full census is not possible, statisticians use sampling methods to collect a representative sample from which inferences about the overall population can be drawn. There are two main statistical methods - descriptive statistics which summarize sample data using measures like the mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics which make probabilistic conclusions about populations based on random or observational errors in sample data.

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Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and

presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is


conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied.
Populations can be diverse groups of people or objects such as "all people living in a country" or
"every atom composing a crystal". Statistics deals with every aspect of data, including the
planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiment.

When census data cannot be collected, statisticians collect data by developing specific
experiment designs and survey samples. Representative sampling assures that inferences and
conclusions can reasonably extend from the sample to the population as a whole. An
experimental study involves taking measurements of the system under study, manipulating the
system, and then taking additional measurements using the same procedure to determine if the
manipulation has modified the values of the measurements. In contrast, an observational study
does not involve experimental manipulation.

Two main statistical methods are used in data analysis: descriptive statistics, which summarize
data from a sample using indexes such as the mean or standard deviation, and inferential
statistics, which draw conclusions from data that are subject to random variation (e.g.,
observational errors, sampling variation). Descriptive statistics are most often concerned with
two sets of properties of a distribution (sample or population): central tendency (or location)
seeks to characterize the distribution's central or typical value, while dispersion (or variability)
characterizes the extent to which members of the distribution depart from its center and each
other. Inferences on mathematical statistics are made under the framework of probability

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