Define statistics.?

Question

name different types of statistics.

Answer 1

statistics are a collection of data related to a subject. statistics for a website would be as follows: number of hits, number of new visitors, number of visitors from specific location, number of downloads requested, number of downloads succeded. or statistics for general internet use would be: number of people within a specified age range who shop the internet before they buy, ratio of high speed internet users to dialup users, etc

Answer 2

Statistics is the science of learning from data, and of measuring, controlling, and communicating uncertainty; and it thereby provides the navigation essential for controlling the course of scientific and societal advances (Davidian, M. and Louis, T. A., 10.1126/science.1218685).

Statisticians apply statistical thinking and methods to a wide variety of scientific, social, and business endeavors in such areas as astronomy, biology, education, economics, engineering, genetics, marketing, medicine, psychology, public health, sports, among many. "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone else's backyard." (John Tukey, Bell Labs, Princeton University)

Many economic, social, political, and military decisions cannot be made without statistical techniques, such as the design of experiments to gain federal approval of a newly

Answer 3

statistics is a collection ofdata. Ad there r no types of statistics but different tools of statistics.

example:

Pie chart
Bargraph
venn diagram
line chart etc for data representaion

and different tests for analysis like
chi square test

then also mean median mode etc

Answer 4

it is the art of predicting the futur.

Answer 5

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