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University of Reading

Applied Statistics

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: mathematics and statistics

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

University website: www.reading.ac.uk

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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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The rise of biometry in this 20th century, like that of geometry in the 3rd century before Christ, seems to mark out one of the great ages or critical periods in the advance of the human understanding.

Sir R.A. Fisher (Sept 1948). "Biometry". Biometrics 4: 217-219.

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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lampposts — for support rather than illumination.

Andrew Lang, in a 1910 speech: as quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977), and reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 488.

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The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

Variants: One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. When one dies, it is a tragedy. When a million die, it is a statistic.

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