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Descriptive Statistics, It Involves Organizing, Displaying, and Describing Data. The Data Are

This document discusses the origin and development of statistics. It defines statistics as the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data. Statistics has two broad categories - descriptive statistics which involves organizing and describing data, and inferential statistics which involves drawing conclusions about populations based on samples. The document traces how statistics has developed from being limited in the past to becoming more widely used today with new methods and the availability of electronics. It emphasizes that statistics provides reliable information to understand topics deeply and make evidence-based decisions.

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Descriptive Statistics, It Involves Organizing, Displaying, and Describing Data. The Data Are

This document discusses the origin and development of statistics. It defines statistics as the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data. Statistics has two broad categories - descriptive statistics which involves organizing and describing data, and inferential statistics which involves drawing conclusions about populations based on samples. The document traces how statistics has developed from being limited in the past to becoming more widely used today with new methods and the availability of electronics. It emphasizes that statistics provides reliable information to understand topics deeply and make evidence-based decisions.

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Name: Christine M.

Robiso

Origin and Development of Statistics

I. Introduction

II. Learning Concepts


Statisticians have various descriptions of the term statistics. And it is generally described
as a study or collection of data. To be specific, as defined by one of the statisticians,
“Statistics is the science and art that deals with the collection, organization, creative
presentation, analysis and interpretation of data.”.
Statistics has two broad categories. These are the descriptive and inferential statistics. In
descriptive statistics, it involves organizing, displaying, and describing data. The data are
presented in the form of tables and graphs that helps in serving information. And it dealt
with everyday happenings such as accidents, prices of goods, business, incomes, epidemics,
sports data, population data, etc. While in inferential statistics, it involves drawing
conclusions about a population based on information contained in a sample taken from that
population. And sample evidence brings out inferences.
Researchers or statisticians gather data or information from the population. A
population is “any specific collection of objects of interest” and a sample is “any subset or
subcollection of the population”. A population often consists of a large group of specifically
defined elements.
Statistics also has two classifications of data. The data is quantitative if the observations
or measurements made on a given variable of a sample or population have numerical
values. And the data is qualitative if words, groups and categories represents the
observations or measurements.

III. Summary
Statistics serve as a tool used for gathering information, including methods of collecting,
organizing and analyzing data in such a way that significant conclusions can be drawn from
them. Statistics aids to an immense variety of needs, both academic and practical. In the
past, the application of statistics was limited but it has developed gradually during the last
few centuries. And now, during the 20th century, several statisticians were active in
developing new methods, theories and applications of statistics. And these days, the
availability of electronics is certainly a major factor in the modern development of statistics.

IV. Reflections
Having statistical knowledge helps you use the proper techniques or methods to collect
the data, analyze the data appropriately and present the results effectively. And by using
statistical procedures correctly, then they tend to produce accurate results and would be
free from any uncertainty and errors of the findings. Statisticians should ensure that all
aspects of a study follow the appropriate methods to produce reliable information and to
enable the users of data to come up to reasonable conclusions. And also with reliable data,
it allows you to understand the topic much more deeply.
Statistics also is not just all about numbers, tables, graphs, and facts. It is also like having
new discoveries and new learnings which helps you in making right choices or best decisions
based on the results. It gives you knowledge that allow you to learn from data reliably and
make reasonable conclusions.

V. Implications
Statistics is not just a collection of data but it also served as a guide for making decisions
or conclusions based on the information analyzed and interpreted. As statistics is used to
make predictions based on the data available and to make conclusions about a population
of interest, statistics tries to make sense of uncertainty in the available data. And the more
systematic is observed the better the prediction can be made. And the more random error
observed, the more uncertain the prediction is.

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