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Study of collection and analysis of data

Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups of people or objects such as "all people living in a country" or "every atom composing a crystal". Statistics deals with every aspect of data, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. Statistics is deeply related to subjects like physics, chemistry, geography, geopolitics, and especially mathematics. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: StatisticsA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Cancer statistics, 2023Influential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Engineering Mechanics, StaticsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 CountriesCited 82,009 times
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📖 Definitions

Noun A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.

Noun A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.

Noun plural of statistic

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Introduction
  2. Statistical data
  3. Methods
  4. History
  5. Applications
  6. Specialized disciplines
  7. Misuse

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