Statistics is a branch of mathematics that studies the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. There are two major statistical methods used in the study. The field of descriptive statistics summarizes and describes the properties of the data for a sample. The field of inferential statistics draws conclusions and makes predictions about the population. A population is the entire set of data, known and unknown, observable and unobservable, that we want to study and draw conclusions about. A set of samples of a population is a subset of the population ...
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H. Li, PhDNumerical Methods Using Javahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6797-4_1212. Basic Statistics
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