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What is statistics?
What is statistics?
- The study of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, presenting, and organizing data (correct)
- The study of language and communication.
- The study of history and culture
- The study of physical sciences.
What does statistics deal with?
What does statistics deal with?
- Uncertainty and variation. (correct)
- Emotions and feelings.
- Certainty and stability.
- Creativity and imagination.
What are the two types of statistics?
What are the two types of statistics?
- Biological and chemical.
- Historical and contemporary.
- Descriptive and inferential. (correct)
- Qualitative and quantitative
What do descriptive statistics do?
What do descriptive statistics do?
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What are the basics of statistics?
What are the basics of statistics?
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What does mathematical statistics do?
What does mathematical statistics do?
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What is data?
What is data?
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What are the types of quantitative data?
What are the types of quantitative data?
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In which fields does statistics have applications?
In which fields does statistics have applications?
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What is skewness?
What is skewness?
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Study Notes
- Statistics is the study of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, presenting, and organizing data.
- It is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with uncertainty and variation.
- There are two types of statistics: descriptive and inferential.
- Descriptive statistics summarize data, while inferential statistics are used to explain descriptive statistics.
- The basics of statistics include measures of central tendency and dispersion.
- Mathematical statistics applies mathematics to statistics.
- Data is a collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations, etc.
- The types of quantitative data are discrete and continuous.
- Statistics has applications in various fields, such as psychology, geology, sociology, and weather forecasting.
- Skewness is a measure of the asymmetry in a probability distribution.
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