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Statistics

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: mathematics and statistics

University website: www.ox.ac.uk

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Statistics

Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. In applying statistics to, for example, a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model process to be studied. Populations can be diverse topics such as "all people living in a country" or "every atom composing a crystal". Statistics deals with all aspects of data including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. See glossary of probability and statistics.

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While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.

Attributed to Frederick Mosteller in Murray, Charles (2005). "How to Accuse the Other Guy of Lying with Statistics". Statistical Science 20 (3): 239-241. ISSN 0883-4237. Retrieved on 2011-08-22.

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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli by Mark Twain in "Chapters from My Autobiography — XX", North American Review No. DCXVIII (JULY 5, 1907) [1]. His attribution is unverified and the origin is uncertain: see Lies, damned lies, and statistics and Leonard H. Courtney. Other authors to whom the quote has been attributed, as reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), include Henry Labouchère, Abram S. Hewitt, and Holloway H. Frost.

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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Archie Goodwin, in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novel Death of a Doxy (1966)

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