Statistics

Introduction Statistics are used everyday in life, and are very important in the everyday world. One important use of statistics is to summarize a collection of data in a clear and understandable way. For example, if a psychologist gave a personality test measuring shyness to all 2500 students attending a small college, How might these measurements be summarized? There are two basic methods: numerical and graphical. Using the numerical approach one might compute statistics such as …

…would be very complicated. Statistics are used everyday throughout the world to compute and organize numbers and data. Statistics help to summarize large sums of data and information into small and convenient graphs, charts, etc. . Statistics range from the littlest things like a little leaguer’s batting average to as big as a national census of population. All in all, people may not realize it, but statistics are a huge factor in mathematics and life.