Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and representation of data.
In order to get an idea about statistics we will understand it with the help of an example.
Zen is interested in carrying out a survey of a group of people.
He will take the following steps in order to carry out a successful survey.
- Collect the data by communicating with the people in an unorganised or raw
- Represent the data in the form of graphs, charts,
- Analyse the data from the graphs,
- Interpret the data for further
The steps followed above have been listed in the image below.
In a nutshell, we can say that statistics is all about data. Basically, it provides us the tools to handle our data.
Summary
| Statistics | Discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. |
Did you know?
Statistics is used in many sectors such as psychology, geology, sociology, weather forecasting, probability and much more.