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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR BUS ECON Lesson 1: Introduction Bin Wang Statistical Analysis for Business Economics: Spring 2011 What is Statistics? Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. “Statistics is a way to get information from data” Statistics Data Information Data: Facts, especially Information: Knowledge numerical facts, collected communicated concerning together for reference or some particular fact. information. Statistics is a tool for creating new understanding from a set of numbers. Definitions: Oxford English Dictionary 2 What is Statistics? Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. “Statistics is a way to get information from data” Statistics Data E.g. Class average, Information Proportion of class List of last terms’ receiving A’s, New information about scores: Most frequent mark, the class. 95, 82, 70, 54, 78, Marks distribution, etc. 69, 89,… Statistics is a tool for creating new understanding from a set of numbers, it gives us good descriptions about the object.