Statistics

Statistics is described as:

“Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.”

In practice this often means doing some form of analysis of data. This includes processes like taking a mean of a collection of numerical values and checking if particular relationship exists within the data.

Important

In this chapter you will cover:

• Calculating measures of central tendency and spread;

• Calculating bivariate coefficients;

• Fitting a line of best fit; and

• Using the Normal distribution.