Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with data collection, organization, analysis, interpretation

and presentation. In applying statistics to, for example, a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is
conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model process to be studied.

Statistics is a form of mathematical analysis that uses quantified models, representations and synopses
for a given set of experimental data or real-life studies. Statistics studies methodologies to gather, review,
analyze and draw conclusions from data.

What is Statistics?

Statistics is the science concerned with developing and studying methods for collecting, analyzing,
interpreting and presenting empirical data. Statistics is a highly interdisciplinary field; research in
statistics finds applicability in virtually all scientific fields and research questions in the various scientific
fields motivate the development of new statistical methods and theory. In developing methods and
studying the theory that underlies the methods statisticians draw on a variety of mathematical and
computational tools.

a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses
of numerical data

Statistics is a broad mathematical discipline which studies ways to collect, summarize, and draw
conclusions from data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic fields from the physical and social
sciences to the humanities, as well as to business, government and industry.

The role of statistic in electrical engineering?

Over the past few years the EU has begun taking some steps against the spread of nuclear weapons
within its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). At the Thessaloniki Summit June 2003, the
European Council adopted its first draft Strategy against the proliferation of Weapons of Mass
Destruction …
A discrete distribution is one in which the data can only take on certain values, for example integers. A
continuous distribution is one in which data can take on any value within a specified range (which may
be infinite).

For a discrete distribution, probabilities can be assigned to the values in the distribution - for example,
"the probability that the web page will have 12 clicks in an hour is 0.15." In contrast, a continuous
distribution has an infinite number of possible values, and the probability associated with any particular
value of a continuous distribution is null. Therefore, continuous distributions are normally described in
terms of probability density, which can be converted into the probability that a value will fall within a
certain range.

Difference Between Population and Sample. ... In the same way, in statistics population denotes a large
group consisting of elements having at least one common feature. The term is often contrasted with the
sample, which is nothing but a part of the population that is so selected to represent the entire group.

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics is the term given to the analysis of data that helps describe, show or summarize
data in a meaningful way such that, for example, patterns might emerge from the data. Descriptive
statistics do not, however, allow us to make conclusions beyond the data we have analysed or reach
conclusions regarding any hypotheses we might have made. They are simply a way to describe our data.

Descriptive statistics are very important because if we simply presented our raw data it would be hard to
visulize what the data was showing, especially if there was a lot of it. Descriptive statistics therefore
enables us to present the data in a more meaningful way, which allows simpler interpretation of the
data. For example, if we had the results of 100 pieces of students' coursework, we may be interested in
the overall performance of those students. We would also be interested in the distribution or spread of
the marks. Descriptive statistics allow us to do this. How to properly describe data through statistics and
graphs is an important topic and discussed in other Laerd Statistics guides. Typically, there are two
general types of statistic that are used to describe data:

Measures of central tendency: these are ways of describing the central position of a frequency
distribution for a group of data. In this case, the frequency distribution is simply the distribution and
pattern of marks scored by the 100 students from the lowest to the highest. We can describe this central
position using a number of statistics, including the mode, median, and mean. You can read about
measures of central tendency here.
Measures of spread: these are ways of summarizing a group of data by describing how spread out the
scores are. For example, the mean score of our 100 students may be 65 out of 100. However, not all
students will have scored 65 marks. Rather, their scores will be spread out. Some will be lower and
others higher. Measures of spread help us to summarize how spread out these scores are. To describe
this spread, a number of statistics are available to us, including the range, quartiles, absolute deviation,
variance and standard deviation.

When we use descriptive statistics it is useful to summarize our group of data using a combination of
tabulated description (i.e., tables), graphical description (i.e., graphs and charts) and statistical
commentary (i.e., a discussion of the results).

Descriptive Statistics. Descriptive statistics are used to describe the basic features of the data in a study.
They provide simple summaries about the sample and the measures. Together with simple graphics
analysis, they form the basis of virtually every quantitative analysis of data.

Inferential Statistics

We have seen that descriptive statistics provide information about our immediate group of data. For
example, we could calculate the mean and standard deviation of the exam marks for the 100 students
and this could provide valuable information about this group of 100 students. Any group of data like this,
which includes all the data you are interested in, is called a population. A population can be small or
large, as long as it includes all the data you are interested in. For example, if you were only interested in
the exam marks of 100 students, the 100 students would represent your population. Descriptive
statistics are applied to populations, and the properties of populations, like the mean or standard
deviation, are called parameters as they represent the whole population (i.e., everybody you are
interested in).

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics give information that describes the data in some manner. For example, suppose a
pet shop sells cats, dogs, birds and fish. If 100 pets are sold, and 40 out of the 100 were dogs, then one
description of the data on the pets sold would be that 40% were dogs.

This same pet shop may conduct a study on the number of fish sold each day for one month and
determine that an average of 10 fish were sold each day. The average is an example of descriptive
statistics.
Some other measurements in descriptive statistics answer questions such as 'How widely dispersed is
this data?', 'Are there a lot of different values?' or 'Are many of the values the same?', 'What value is in
the middle of this data?', 'Where does a particular data value stand with respect with the other values in
the data set?'

A graphical representation of data is another method of descriptive statistics. Examples of this visual
representation are histograms, bar graphs and pie graphs, to name a few. Using these methods, the data
is described by compiling it into a graph, table or other visual representation.

This provides a quick method to make comparisons between different data sets and to spot the smallest
and largest values and trends or changes over a period of time. If the pet shop owner wanted to know
what type of pet was purchased most in the summer, a graph might be a good medium to compare the
number of each type of pet sold and the months of the year.

Inferential Statistics

Now, suppose you need to collect data on a very large population. For example, suppose you want to
know the average height of all the men in a city with a population of so many million residents. It isn't
very practical to try and get the height of each man.

This is where inferential statistics comes into play. Inferential statistics makes inferences about
populations using data drawn from the population. Instead of using the entire population to gather the
data, the statistician will collect a sample or samples from the millions of residents and make inferences
about the entire population using the sample.