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 statisticalmodel process to be studied.

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

A descriptive statistic is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features of a collection of information, while descriptive
statistics in the mass noun sense is the process of using and analyzing those statistics. Wikipedia

Descriptive statistics uses the data to provide descriptions of the population, either through numerical calculations or graphs or
tables. Inferential statistics makes inferences and predictions about a population based on a sample of data taken from the population
in question.Feb 28, 2014

Inferential statistics is one of the two main branches of statistics. Inferential statistics use a random sample of data taken from a
population to describe and make inferences about the population. ... You can measure the diameters of a representative random
sample of nails.

Quantitative data is data expressing a certain quantity, amount or range. Usually, there are measurement units associated with
the data, e.g. metres, in the case of the height of a person. It makes sense to set boundary limits to such data, and it is also meaningful
to apply arithmetic operations to the data.Sep 25, 2001

Data that can only take certain values. For example: the number of students in a class (you can't have half a student). Discrete Data is
not Continuous Data. See: Continuous Data. Discrete and Continuous Data.

Discrete data can be numeric -- like numbers of apples -- but it can also be categorical -- like red or blue, or male or female, or good or
bad. Continuous data are not restricted to defined separate values, but can occupy any value over a continuous range.

continuous data is quantitative data that can be measured. • it has an infinite number of possible values within. a selected range e.g.
temperature range. discrete data.

Qualitative data is defined as the data that approximates and characterizes. ... This data type is non-numerical in nature. This type
of data is collected through methods of observations, one-to-one interview, conducting focus groups and similar methods. Qualitative
data in statistics is also known as categorical data.

nominal data (also known as nominalscale) is a type of data that is used to label variables without providing any quantitative value. It
is the simplest form of a scale of measure. Unlike ordinaldata. ... Thus, the only measure of central tende

Ordinal data is a categorical, statistical data type where the variables have natural, ordered categories and the distances between the
categories is not known. These data exist on an ordinal scale, one of four levels of measurement described

Interval data, also called an integer, is defined as adata type which is measured along a scale, in which each point is placed at equal
distance from one another. ... Interval data has very distinctive attributes that make it distinct in comparison to nominal data,
ordinal data or even ratio data.

ratio is a relationship between two numbers indicating how many times the first number contains the second. For example, if a bowl of
fruit contains eight oranges and six lemons, then the ratio of oranges to lemons is eight to six (that is, 8:6, which is equivalent to
the ratio 4:3).

a central tendency (or measure of central tendency) is a central or typical value for a probability distribution. It may also be called a
center or location of the distribution. ... The most commonmeasures of central tendency are the arithmetic mean, the median and the
mode.

he "mean" is the "average" you're used to, where you add up all the numbers and then divide by the number of numbers. The "median"
is the "middle" value in the list of numbers. ... The "mode" is the value that occurs most often.

The median is a simple measure of central tendency. To find the median, we arrange the observations in order from smallest to largest
value. If there is an odd number of observations, the median is the middle value. If there is an even number of observations,
the median is the average of the two middle values.

The mode is a statistical term that refers to the most frequently occurring number found in a set of numbers. The mode is found by
collecting and organizing data in order to count the frequency of each result. The result with the highest count of occurrences is
the mode of the set, also referred to as the modal value.

he statistical mean refers to the mean or average that is used to derive the central tendency of the data in question. It is determined
by adding all the data points in a population and then dividing the total by the number of points. The resulting number is known as
the mean or the average.

Measures of Variability are statistics that describe the amount of difference and spread in a data set.
These measures include variance, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean.

Variance is a measurement of the spread between numbers in a data set. The variance measures how far each number in the set is
from the mean. The square root of variance is the standard deviation
The standard deviation is a statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root
of the variance. ... For example, a volatile stock has a high standard deviation, while the deviation of a stable blue-chip stock is
usually rather low.

Population sampling is the process of taking a subset of subjects that is representative of the entirepopulation. The sample must
have sufficient size to warrant statistical analysis.

A statistical hypothesis is a hypothesis concerning the parameters or from of the probability distribution for a designated population
or populations, or, more generally, of a probabilistic mechanism which is supposed to generate the observations.May 19, 2002

arameters in statistics is an important component of any statistical analysis. In simple words, a parameter is any numerical quantity
that characterizes a given population or some aspect of it. This means the parameter tells us something about the whole population.

Ungrouped data is the data you first gather from an experiment or study. The datais raw — that is, it's not sorted into categories,
classified, or otherwise grouped. Anungrouped set of data is basically a list of numbers.

Grouped data are dataformed by aggregating individual observations of a variable into groups, so that a frequency distribution of these
groups serves as a convenient means of summarizing or analyzing the data.