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• Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, presentation and explanation of data.

• Fast Facts

  1. Emerged from probability theory in the mid 17th century
  2. Those who work in this field are called statisticians
  3. Common use of statistical research is to investigate causality using an experiment
  4. Statistics is regarded as a distinct field of mathematics, not a subfield
  5. One of the first major contributors to statistics was Blaise Pascal

• Glossary

  1. Estimate: An estimate of one value based on other known data values
  2. Experiment: The study of collected data
  3. Experimental unit: The unit of data that is sampled and studied
  4. Parameter: A constant value used to signify a characteristic of the population
  5. Population: The complete group of objects that data is drawn from
  6. Sample: A portion of the population that is used to estimate characteristics of the entire population
  7. Sampling distribution: The variance between data collected from a sample and the complete population
  8. Statistic: A specific piece of data from a sample or population
  9. Statistical inference: The conclusion made from analysis of collected data

• Notable Figures

  1. Thomas Bayes, developer of the Bayes' theorem
  2. Pafnuty Chebychev, Russian mathematician
  3. Pierre de Fermat, inventor of Fermat's last theorem
  4. Andrey Kolmogorov, mathematician, university professor
  5. Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, mathematician
  6. Karl Pearson, applied statistics to biology and medicine
  7. Charles Spearman, created Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

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