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Re: Politics

Sat, 13 November 2004 03:58

mazda

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Erm, statistics is mathematical probability.

Put simply, a statistic is any (quantitative) data that can be represented as a number.
e.g. the number of peas in a pod.

Going on to the plural - statistics - we have two meanings.
Obviously the plural of the above noun, but also more pertinently it is the science of collection of data (the data collected is called a sample) and the use of probability in the analysis and estimation of that data.

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