What is statistics?
Q: What is statistics?
A: Statistics is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with collecting, organising, analysing, reading and presenting data.
Q: What are the two types of statistics?
A: The two types of statistics are descriptive and inferential. Descriptive statistics make summaries of data while inferential statistics makes predictions.
Q: How does statistics help in other fields?
A: Statistics helps in the study of many other fields such as science, medicine, economics, psychology, politics and marketing.
Q: Who works in the field of statistics?
A: Someone who works in the field of statistics is called a statistician.
Q: What does the word "statistics" mean?
A: In addition to being the name of a field of study, the word "statistics" can also mean numbers that are used to describe data or relationships.
Q: What activities do statisticians engage in?
A: Statisticians engage in activities such as collecting, organising, analysing, reading and presenting data.
